08-03-2012, 12:43 PM
In answer to George's question a few posts up . . .
OK, I resign from the Standards Committee now, with immediate effect.
It has long been clear to me that I was in a minority of one within the Committee in thinking that the Ayrshire proposals (as presented at the 2011 AGM) were not harmful and were certainly not intended to be destructive. I support the principle of having a Standards Code, and was very keen to have it voted into place at the 2009 AGM; but I took it for granted that the Code and Operating Procedures were not perfect and would need to be amended in the light of experience or of unhurried reflection.
I'll probably still be at the SGM, but I've grown weary of politics in all its forms.
OK, I resign from the Standards Committee now, with immediate effect.
It has long been clear to me that I was in a minority of one within the Committee in thinking that the Ayrshire proposals (as presented at the 2011 AGM) were not harmful and were certainly not intended to be destructive. I support the principle of having a Standards Code, and was very keen to have it voted into place at the 2009 AGM; but I took it for granted that the Code and Operating Procedures were not perfect and would need to be amended in the light of experience or of unhurried reflection.
I'll probably still be at the SGM, but I've grown weary of politics in all its forms.