This is a case of now you see it, now you don’t. After the elected leader consultation debacle I have been looking out for the webcast of the extraordinary meeting that came at the end of the council’s meeting on 16th of December.
As things stood the webcast of the council meeting is just cut off when you get to that bit at the end of the meeting, now the link to the webcast has vanished altogether from the council’s homepage, the webcast is till there at http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council_meeting_webcast.aspx
This raises a few questions:
Are the so ashamed of the way that the rode over democracy and produced a result that was opposite to the findings of the public consultation, that they are never going to webcast of the extraordinary meeting that they did this at?
Are they ashamed of the main council meeting and have removed all links to the webcast to prevent us from watching it?
Are they hoping that as there is no link to the webcast people won't watch it, so that they can use the public's lack of interest to justify not webcasting future meetings?
Strangely the consultation hasn’t appeared on their, “Recently closed consultation - results and follow up” page at http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council__democracy/consultation.aspx
This raises a few questions:
Will the results of the publication ever be published?
Is there something about this consultation that the council wants to hide?
Now that the council have changed the result of May elections away from the consulted and expressed wishes of the electorate and have effectively left the only course of action open to rectify the situation as one that will cost us the taxpayer £100,000 I have to admit to not really knowing how to proceed.
I could try initiating an E-petition, see http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council---democracy/cllrs-democracy---elections/epetitions.aspx but as the council has already decided to ignore the public view on this subject I think it would probably be a waste of time.
As things stood the webcast of the council meeting is just cut off when you get to that bit at the end of the meeting, now the link to the webcast has vanished altogether from the council’s homepage, the webcast is till there at http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council_meeting_webcast.aspx
This raises a few questions:
Are the so ashamed of the way that the rode over democracy and produced a result that was opposite to the findings of the public consultation, that they are never going to webcast of the extraordinary meeting that they did this at?
Are they ashamed of the main council meeting and have removed all links to the webcast to prevent us from watching it?
Are they hoping that as there is no link to the webcast people won't watch it, so that they can use the public's lack of interest to justify not webcasting future meetings?
Strangely the consultation hasn’t appeared on their, “Recently closed consultation - results and follow up” page at http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council__democracy/consultation.aspx
This raises a few questions:
Will the results of the publication ever be published?
Is there something about this consultation that the council wants to hide?
Now that the council have changed the result of May elections away from the consulted and expressed wishes of the electorate and have effectively left the only course of action open to rectify the situation as one that will cost us the taxpayer £100,000 I have to admit to not really knowing how to proceed.
I could try initiating an E-petition, see http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council---democracy/cllrs-democracy---elections/epetitions.aspx but as the council has already decided to ignore the public view on this subject I think it would probably be a waste of time.
Update, the link has reappeared on the council’s homepage and the council have updated their webcast page.
Now you can watch the extraordinary meeting and the top left hand corner of the full council meeting, this is mostly a movie of a curtain.
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