http://yorkstories.co.uk/kings-square-petition-council-michelle-wyatt/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/kings-square-petition-council-michelle-wyatt/#comment-2629 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:26:46 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3067#comment-2629 The Kings Square 3 min public comment starts at 13min 40 seconds into the video. The debate on it was 30 min later and lasted for approx 30 min.
The outcome I experienced was that all the conservatives were in favour and all labour against. To me this showed a lack of ability to express individual opinions which could be why our wishes arent being understood and debated clearly. Towards the end it descended into a point scorring battle of wits where only extremities were being given rather than practical, middle ground, realistic and plausible, constructive (hand me a thesaurus!) discussion.
I believe the solution to this is for at the begining of the debate 1 labour stands up giving the party position. Then one conservative gives the party position. Then the remaining 4-5 people give individual non party line discussion. In this way both the labour and conservative can get thier attack in but more than 2 positions/viewpoints can be presented. If I could I would do a 3min talk on this!!

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