The DfE has directed the transfer of Camden junior school in Carshalton, Surrey, to the Harris academy chain despite 98% of respondents to an official consultation voting against it.
The timetable of consultations, votes, legal challenges and delays for more than a decade is dizzying.
The series of consultations, votes, amendments, and discussions that follows is intricate and may take anywhere from 1 to 3 years to be completed.
"We will continue to talk to other unions about planning further widespread co-ordinated industrial action and there is as much reason as ever for our members to vote in our consultation ballot to reject these spiteful cuts".
However, the PRD says it plans to organise two more "citizen consultation" referendum votes in August.Keeping the pressure onAlthough the referendums hold only symbolic value, they form part of the left-wing opposition's attempts to win over public opinion and to place increased pressure on Congress to water down, if not reject completely, the reform proposals.
On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies was achieved after a decade of planning, consultation and voting.
Thanks to the pesky democracy of the Lib Dem power structure, Nick Clegg cannot march his party in the anti-social-democratic direction which he thinks the voters would like without consultations and votes.
The consultation declined to vote on a resolution backing the Jerusalem declaration placed on their seats that morning, without the possibility of amendment.
The Electoral Commission set out, in its response to the Ministry of Justice's second consultation on prisoners voting in 2009, a mechanism by which prisoners could be enfranchised though a system of postal or proxy voting.
Breaking his silence on the controversial bill – which was put forward by a member of the ruling party – Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, said it had become a "foreign policy issue" and needed further consultation before being voted on in parliament.
