Just to say thank you to who ever put up the extracts from Arthur Morgan. I have a bit of a history and interest in this topic and look forward to directly qouting Deputy Morgan next year at the Council wehn we adopt a new Book of Estimates. Again Go raibh, mile, mile, maith agat.
Strangely enough, our councillors are allowed disagree with Arthur Morgan.Originally Posted by cllr
"John Bull has got his hand down your pants and his fist around your bollox and you can't see it."
I think delegates were right to vote against the amendment. Of course we're against bin charges ON PRINCIPLE, therefore any councillor that votes against policy and principle should be subject to discipline up to and including expulsion.
Trying to water down the parties position in this way, like they did with the motion on partnership, is wrong and is the beginning of a slippery slope towards accepting these fundamentaly non socialist and non republican principles.
To be a student and not a revolutionary is a contradiction.
-Salvador Allende
The amendment wasn't about trying to water down our position. It restated our strong opposition to the service charges and our commitment to trying to get rid of them. It simply recognised the reality that they can no longer be gotten rid of at local government level. It still would require our councillors to vote against them UNLESS they made a very strong case to the Ard Chomhairle why they shouldn't do (which as I noted, in the year when this amendment was party policy, didn't happen).
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