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Handforth Parish Council Zoom meeting descends into chaos
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LOL, I feel better about going off mute to interrupt a zoning commissioner earlier this week now.
The clips they showed on the BBC news report made me burst out laughing.
So many quotable lines.
So many quotable lines.
READ THE STANDING ORDERS.
READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM!
oh man I was wheezing.
The whole video is just absurd.
READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM!
oh man I was wheezing.
The whole video is just absurd.
It''s Sayre's law in practice. The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small.
The real problem is that Robert's is too cumbersome for bodies like this. It's why for years I always motioned for "Robert's Rules, casually implemented" whenever the council I'm on had to vote on what parliamentary procedure to use.
The entertainment value can't be denied. Nearly as quotable as Ghostbusters. I'll be stealing some of those quotes for home use.
oh no argument there
it's just more the fact that lots of people come into these things unwilling to learn any body of rules whatsoever thinking it's unnecessary or a waste of their time and then when one thing goes to hell they have no idea how to proceed. it can be hard to get anything done at that point. even harder than robert's makes it sometimes
I enjoyed that quite a bit.
I have a teams meeting today at 3pm. I'll be sure to announce to my peers to READ THE STANDING ORDERS.
I have a teams meeting today at 3pm. I'll be sure to announce to my peers to READ THE STANDING ORDERS.
So ever the devil's advocate, I'm going to suggest that based on what I've read so far, I think the kneejerk support for Weaver might be misplaced.
She's not a member of the body, she's just helping them conduct their meetings. As such, she actually doesn't have the authority to eject a member of the body from a meeting, especially when that member is pointing out (however rudely) that she doesn't have the authority to raise a point of order.
She's not a member of the body, she's just helping them conduct their meetings. As such, she actually doesn't have the authority to eject a member of the body from a meeting, especially when that member is pointing out (however rudely) that she doesn't have the authority to raise a point of order.
I'd never heard of that 'law', but holy hell it's so true. I wonder how strongly it correlates to the use of Godwins Law.
fair but if the chairman of the council refuses to schedule a meeting the artifice is crumbling already. You only need to see of the other videos on that channel to see how much of a shambles a lot of them are.
Though I can identify hugely with being in the right and something and getting angry and losing an argument so I can sympathise somewhat.
also,
fair but if the chairman of the council refuses to schedule a meeting the artifice is crumbling already. You only need to see of the other videos on that channel to see how much of a shambles a lot of them are.
Though I can identify hugely with being in the right and something and getting angry and losing an argument so I can sympathise somewhat.
also,
This is great. Love crazy Aled
I've watched it 3 times now. So many great moments. The whispered "fuck off". Phone calls in the middle of the meeting. Toilet flushes. "He hasn't been to a meeting in 6 months. The fact no meetings were held is irrelevant."
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As someone who has covered hundreds of municipal government meetings over the years, I've seen worse. About a decade ago we were covering the first Illinois politician to get recalled. I went to a few of those meetings before she was removed and it was the most dysfunctional local government I'd ever seen. Meetings lasted until well past 1 a.m. because of constant disruptions. The council member in question would get up from her spot on the board and go stand in line for public comment just to have more time to shout at her colleagues. She accused the village clerk of stealing money from a fundraiser once, with no proof. She sued one of the local newspapers to try to force them to reveal the name of a commenter on an article who insulted her. At one point after she was finally removed from office, she even called up the village president, a frequent adversary, and tried to sell him on her sex toy business.
None of these were written by me but by colleagues from various publications that were covering this all back then. This is just a taste. Combined, we all wrote hundreds of articles on this shitshow over about a two-year period. Sadly, a lot of it seems to have been lost to time.
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None of these were written by me but by colleagues from various publications that were covering this all back then. This is just a taste. Combined, we all wrote hundreds of articles on this shitshow over about a two-year period. Sadly, a lot of it seems to have been lost to time.
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