There was no consensus for a HF on ETH, otherwise ETC couldn't exist now. The fact it exists proves the pro-forkers were lying about a consensus that did in fact very obviously not exist. ETC is prove that post-fork-ETH is very likely a scam.
How could the old chain exist if you had a "consensus" on a fork? It wouldn't be possible.
People who claim there was consensus for a fork are scammers or very stupid.