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Originally Posted by gynn
The Council Constitution (believe it or not) does not preclude the Council from discussing issues ´not conected to the running of HBC, in fact things not even conected with this country.´ Indeed, I remember sitting at countless Council meetings over the years where issues ´not connected to the running of HBC´were raised, but which members felt warranted discussion.
Officers ´have to concern themselves´ with implementing the Council Constitution, and I see nowhere in the constitution that would have allowed them to tell a councillor they couldn´t raise an issue which the councillor felt was important to the community.
So faced with the thankless task of guiding the Council through a difficult situation, I think they did well.
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HBC was created to look after the interests of the people living within its boundaries, not what is happening to peoples relatives in another country, that is why we have the houses of Parliament and send a representative there to work on our behalf. The fact that a statement from HBC site atrocities in another country is, as far as I'm concerned and it seems most people taking part in this debate, not part of HBCs remit no matter how you wrap it up, the name of HBC is now being used for political posturing in another country, which is to my mind totally out of order, no matter how you try to placate it