14-05-2016, 09:31 AM
amuir Wrote:John & George , you are very naive. Proxy votes are block votes. The powerful people take them to maintain their position of power. The people who give their votes will get local benefits. The giving of these block votes are in secret. This is how local councils work in Scotland too.
Totally at odds with Jim Webster's post above on how proxy votes work in practice. Naive my ****.
John Watkins