13-01-2014, 12:59 PM
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.