Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
The definition you provide is largely one I agree with
This is not a definition I provide. This is one you imply. For me, a consultative body is a body whose decisions are
never binding. I guess this is what most people would understand as a consultative body. But you are entirely free to redefine the English language at your guise in your usage.
if the body is only listened to for trivial issues (as this one is), then it provides very little value at all.
You are again confusing "listening" and "being bound by". I may listen and yet take a different decision. It does not mean that what was being said was not taken into account in my decision-making.
If the consultative body says, I am against A for X, Y and Z reasons. And the decision maker nonetheless decides A for R, S and T reasons, it does not follow that the body was not listened to even if its advice was not followed.