Michael,
Yes it is sad that I'd rather the library was closed but at least there would have been a chance that it could be reopened, as was, at a later date. You presumably have a long lease.

You have continued to post here Michael. To spell it out it was P1971's vanishing act from this forum the very moment your library bid was won which indicated that this was no victory for anyone local. She did not even have the good manners to announce to locals that she had won after spending months using this site to campaign.

By the way, that is not a call out for P1971 to start regularly posting here again - her alliance is obviously with the FH Trader's site, and I'm just going to have to come to terms with that loss.

Yes, I got fully taken in by that poster as their 1st post was quite interesting. I finally concluded it was our clever old foxy friend in disguise and disengaged with the racist troll. I assume others came to same conclusion a little quicker. But there is nothing to suggest these are the views of the site owner here. I'm not sure you can say the same about SE23's other favourite site.

As I understand, 3 FH Traders execs went out of their way to help fund and setup a site with a person of openly extreme views. Either they all agreed with the views or they were not bothered if this new site was used to promote them. They then won the bid on running the library. Do you really see no problem? A library isn't just a shop.

will be delighted the volunteers have saved them £100k+ pa - you have nothing to fear from them.

Then why would they want to be on the boards then?