Being just a touch cynical on the odd occasion, I'm just wondering, as our glorious leader has said,
Could it be that what we are looking at here is a smoke screen?
Could it be that he has no real intentions of closing the toilets but instead has something else in mind?
Perhaps a few redundancies? However knowing how peoples feelings are running high at the moment and elections coming up, if he was to dismiss people off his own bat not a popular move.
If he was to stir the pot a little & create a slight diversion, say alter the opening times of some toilets and claim that it's 'cost cutting'.
Then when he backs down and says o.k. keep the toilets open but I was doing it in an attempt to save jobs, now, my people of Hyndburn I have no alternative but to find a different way of saving money, jobs will have to go!
Then like Pontius Pilate this vile man can claim that his hands are clean because the people have spoken.
He might not be capable of thinking up such a scheme, but I bet he knows a few men that can.