Brian:

I've read enough of your posts to know that talking about monitoring the representativeness of consultation responses (if only to give proof against the kind of accusations Roz was making previously about other sources of local opinion) will only entrench your anti-pc opinions - but regarding "re-instating Aparteid" (sic)

Don't throw that term around

(and learn to spell it properly!)

It is an insult to those who had to suffer it for real, and there are quite enough people more well-meaning than yourself who appear to think it's okay to use it as a way of describing any division they happen not to approve of. I am heartily fed-up with running into people of my own age and older (who therefore ought to know better), from varying ethnic backgrounds, who have such short memories that they have forgotten that Apartheid meant suffering and humiliation on a daily basis for some 30 million odd people on a scale they could not begin to imagine. I do not believe that council equal opps forms where you are given the right to refuse the question are anywhere near the same league of 'oppression' as being unable to live with your own family for most of the year due to restrictive pass laws, or running the risk of jail for kissing someone in your own home.