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Originally Posted by jaysay
Ya gynn but they shouldn't have had to deal with it because it was sod all to do with HBC in the first place, they should have forwarded any concerns about this mater to the elected member of parliament, the person who was elected to tackle things of this nature
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I don't think it's as simple as that, jaysay. Officers would have been accused of overriding the democratic right of any councillor to raise issues he/she feels are important within the community. In this instance, the councillor thought it to be a matter of sufficient concern within his community to raise awareness of the issue at Council, and let's face it, he has succeeded. Our friend Garinda has spent hours researching the web on the topic, so he knows more about it now than he did before.
I was fairly flippant about the subject at first, but when I saw how officers dealt with it I was impressed and felt the Council deserved to be defended on their handling of it all, which I think has been exemplary.
If that makes me a village idiot in the eyes of Garinda, then I think I can live with that!