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Originally Posted by claytonender
Andrew, do you think it is good for local democracy for the opposition councilllors to be given no time to read council papers, which are proposing important changes to the consitution of Hyndburn Council? From your view of the request at last night's meeting, it would appear that you do - so much for freedom of speech and welcome to Peter Britcliffe's totalitarian state.
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I do think 10 minutes was enough time for this particular non-controversial issue. The secretary of the Labour group agrees that it was ample time. While the members of the public in the public gallery thought that 10 minutes was excessive.
Claytonender do you think it's good for local democracy for the opposition to propose council papers with huge financial implications, without distributing them first, and then using the vote in leaflets to gain political advantage?
The agenda and minutes are here:
Council I point out that the agenda and attached documents have no mention of the huge change in council tax for empty properties, but if you read the minutes the Labour group suddenly propose the amendment in full. I was as surprised as anybody else as to why a huge financial change was not given in advance to be scrutinised.