STEVE Galloway has got a nerve when he says that the Labour group's walk-out of council last week created a democratic deficit.
We walked out precisely to protest against such a deficit. Tabling a load of "questions" to executive members from their own side is not really a useful way to spend the time of full council. Taking it to the extent they did last week made the whole process a joke.
I am particularly annoyed that he stated that the residents of my ward, Heworth, were not represented - they most certainly were. It's just that, for a portion of the meeting, I chose not to listen to over an hour of self-congratulatory waffle on their part.
Coun Paul Blanchard,
Labour councillor for
Heworth Ward,
Heworth Mews, York.
Updated: 11:10 Thursday, November 18, 2004
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