Fighting a desperate battle

We are fighting a desperate battle to save the town we, and so many visitors, hold dear. I ask the question, why should this be necessary when logic, legality, common sense and emotion all combine to show that the creation of more out of town stores will destroy our beloved community? When right is so palpably on our side, but we have to strive so hard to convince our elected representatives and their cohorts that it is, I begin to wonder if there is not one or more agendas we are not being told about and, if there are such things, they should be dragged from under their stones kicking and screaming into the democratic light of day.

We live in what purports to be a democracy and it simply is not right that powerful commercial interests shoud be allowed to throw precious communities that have evolved over hundreds of years into the dustbin of history at the behest of a council which, for some reason, is refusing to listen to the people who elected them (Lawrence Gordon Clark).