[Tealeaf]

Is there not an analogy here? If this was a board meeting of a private company, then a director who regularly walked out of meetings would be dismissed. It seems to me that the most important role of a councillor is to attend meetings such as this if elected to do so. However, local councils are a democracy and providing a councillor is not in fragrant breach of the rules then he is only answerable to his electorate. But surely questions must now be asked as to the level of financial remuneration that this councillor is claiming to do a job which he is blatantly not doing.