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amuir Wrote:3 Facetiously he gagged Andy H the whole meeting. Andy H said nothing throughout, he passed notes to Hamish in a whisper who then censored them before reading them out if he liked them!
Also the standards committee basically have final say on disciplinary matters - AGM cannot get any info out of them they don't wish to disclose.
Andy this is completely out of order. The reasons I was not speaking at the meeting are well known. Anyone at the Lothians Allegro yesterday and Winter Chess Festival can verify why I could not speak.
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Andy - I was joking about your laryngitis.
In fact there was a nice democratic vote on whether the president can block a motion and the meeting agreed 12-8 that he could. This should be formalised in the constitution. This makes the vote for the president a very important one.
I only wanted an informal vote at the AGM on AOCB. I knew it would not be binding but given that over 20 people were there, this was the largest poll that could be held.
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amuir Wrote:ok, but the meeting certainly set some precedents that the president has special powers:
1 He can block motions
2 He can allow/deny votes on AOCB - presumably no Kasparov/Ilyumzhinov vote would have been allowed either - Andy H must use the noticeboard poll
3 Facetiously he gagged Andy H the whole meeting. Andy H said nothing throughout, he passed notes to Hamish in a whisper who then censored them before reading them out if he liked them!
Also the standards committee basically have final say on disciplinary matters - AGM cannot get any info out of them they don't wish to disclose.
amuir Wrote:Andy - I was joking about your laryngitis.
ah, i get it now; you can say anything you want no matter how controversial or just plain rubbish but suffer no consequences if you say, "joking"; nice one Mr Muir.
