You have picked the wrong bone there...
I am not even sure if I was flying (IFR) when this was done. I certainly don't recall any consultation. I am also not involved in any UK pilot group.
This consultation came out in
June 2011 and closed the following month, when you were
definitely flying IFR.
I may have picked the wrong bone, but I see you are a keen writer, perhaps writing some 200 posts per month of which many find interesting to read.
In my opinion it would have been far better for you to have also been responding to such consultations, either as an individual or through your pilot representative organization.
Your occasional post which targets the unions and "money squandering" at privatized ATC is something that nobody in your country actually cares about, as shown by the (lack of) responses in this consultation.
In a nutshell, GA is responsible for its own death, really.