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Originally Posted by gynn
Yes, but Peter Britcliffe isn't the Managing Director. He is merely a consultee, and has no more right to single handedly cancel the meeting than the Mayor or Leader of the Opposition.
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I agree with you entirely that Peter Britcliffe is merely a consultee, but what Peter wants Peter gets. The problem is that council officers due everything that Peter wants, even when it goes contrary to democracy in the borough.
This is the 2nd time this year that a Full council meeting has been cancelled at short notice. The Leader of the Labour Group was consulted in advance about the previous meeting (which was the AGM) and even put forward a perfectly reasonable solution to the Mayor (Paul Barton) being unable to attend (which meant the Tories would only have been one member down) by Graham Jones pairing with the Mayor and not attending. However this offer was not accepted as the Tories also had 1 member on holiday and would have only had 15 members present to Labours 13 and the Independents 3 (+Malcolm Pritchard).