My main concern is that if enough people like me oppose the closures without actually being users of the service, we may be doing so out of a misplaced sense of what is important. But at the same time I don't really want to be someone who says 'I don't use the library, so I'm not going to oppose its closure' if there is a genuine need for the services it provides.
In an ideal world, the consultation process would be thorough enough to weed out people who oppose the closures on idealogical grounds, but because the public perception of these exercises is that they always support the government's preferred choice of outcome, it is difficult to ascertain whether there is any validity in the results at all. So how do I tell whether to lend my support to those who need it, or whether I should butt out to allow the number of real library users to be accurately assessed. What do I do?
