After tending my poster boards and chasing the printers for more copies of my book this morning I just had enough preparation time to make an effective contribution to the full meeting of Huntingdonshire District Council this afternoon. The Labour group helped me by seconding my proposals and amendments and, in the end, the Tories fell out with each other over making spending choices with insufficient funding. Another successful Southoe Parish meeting tonight followed
I started out by intending to spend the morning preparing for my full meeting of District Council, but it was soon diverted into a whole host of worthy distractions. The need to tend my poster boards first thing and then to chase the printers for more supplies of the History of Little Paxton as we are running out. In the end, I had only an hour or two’s preparation, but I could at least read through the papers and mark up some points to raise. I dropped off some election forms at Pathfinder House and then spent the afternoon asking embarrassing questions of the Tory majority group and tabling amendments. The Labour Group help by seconding my proposals so that they could be discussed and together we were quite effective in opposition. Later, the Tories fell out with each other in the face of making choices between the leisure developments they favoured with the budget that could not finance them all. This evening, I went on to the Southoe Parish meeting and made a good contribution to proceedings in the absence of Percy, who was delayed