Ooo! Look!

A public consultation! Especially for the Government to ignore.

In 3 months' time:

"We have consulted widely and received widespread support."

What they got "support" for was the *consultation*, and most of that was "FFS you can't *do* that because x, y and z are obvious negative consequences which outweigh the pluspoints by elvelty billion percent and here are the numbers to prove it!"

Just like every other public consultation. Or they'll withdraw it for a bit, make a low-key announcement amounting to the same thing and shove it through on the sly.

Excuse me, my cynicism appears to be hanging out.