Si wrote:...vote in the charity conversion as it seemed that most were so disinterested that they were happy to let council take a lead....
That is a guess: they may have simply have been unable to decide when presented with two sides saying such completely opposite things (and who would have expected that in the CTC, politicians yes but the CTC?): how to verify which side was correct?
It was not helpful that the report saying a unified charity offered no advantage over the club and ancilliary charity(s) was suppressed along with the Charity commision discussion on the poll mechanism. I suspect if both those were available it would not have been good for the charity case side.....