The UK's TELE-READERS must be as bemused as they may well be amused. If this issue wasn't being taken so seriously by Ivan Dean it would be enormously funny. Silencing Launceston's PO Clock has its parallel in London with Big Ben. Tasmanians complaining about the NOISE Big Ben makes in London while on holidays there would almost certainly be told to "get a life" – or something of the sort but far less polite.
Anyway, Big Ben rings out 24/7 without tourists complaint, or none that will be heard. Indeed many (most?) quite probably come to hear it ring out and possibly many select hotels where that can be done.
There is such a lack of balance in the way the 'SILENCERS' are presenting their case it is embarrassing. Ivan Dean has found yet another polarising issue to go with his personal set of attention seeking, opportunistic, bandwagon issues.
The city's other aldermen need to be careful about being tarred with his brush and thus becoming the butt of 'Launceston Clock Jokes' way beyond Tasmania. One or two are already skating on very thin ice. Is this really a Council election issue? Are there not many more important issues in need of attention?
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