In a surprise development last night, Phil Burke the chairman of the Village Business Association issued a statement.
‘A list of companies and government agencies using costly phone helplines to make money at customers’ expense has been published by a consumer group.’
For years the LGBT community has been told that one of the reasons why the gay village being must be fenced off and ticket-only during Manchester Pride is due to the bylaws concerning public drinking.
Now, once again, that policy has been exposed for the fraud it always was.
Increasingly, it seems to me that life may have improved for a narrow segment of the UK lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population, but not for the majority. In some ways, for a large proportion of us things are worse now than they were 15-20 years ago.
