A move by Tory councillor’s to ‘stop’ democracy, was pushed through at the budget setting council meeting.
Liberal Democrat councillors had forced recorded votes on issues of free parking, free swimming and re-opening our Leisure Centre’s on bank holiday’s. Conservative councillors closed our Leisure Centre’s on bank holidays.
By having recorded votes, resident’s can then see which way their councillor voted, which some councillors detest. They think they can tell their community one thing, whilst doing another far away in Trowbridge.
Conservative councillor Chris Humphries moved a Motion at the meeting to stop further recorded votes at this meeting. Dictatorship?
The administration was told that only one further recorded vote was forthcoming on re-opening Leisure Centre’s on bank holidays and that they had a choice:
- That a recorded vote would take place on this issue, or
- A recorded vote would be used on the Motion of halting recorded votes.
Tories refused to listen, even against some strong protest by some of their own councillors.
The embarrassing vote was forcefully pushed through by the ruling administration.
In due course, we can all see which councillors voted to halt democracy at a council meeting.
The Conservative Motion proves that they prefer dictatorship to democracy.