Hilarious parish council zoom meeting

I much prefer committees that are driven by a well ordered agenda, have a set finish time and the minutes are simply action points. I’m on two committees that operate like that and have now extricated myself from others I was on that are driven by personalities and were lacking in focus.

Jackie Weaver would fit in fine on my committees.

Sounds like (older) men behaving badly...

Sorry. I listened to discussions about this video in the radio and everyone seemed to find it highly amusing; I watched it briefly and not closely enough. The second time I was appalled by the behaviour of the two men, chairman and vice chairman, and by the general way the meeting was conducted. I have been involved in parish and village affairs for about ten years, and I have never attended a meeting like that or seen comparable behaviour. There are always people on these committees who delight in making points of order and preventing any meeting from ever reaching a decision, particularly about money, but never with the insolence of these two men, who just like Trump, need to be removed from office, probably with the same success.

Calendargirl - I think it's not an issue if they are interested in the less vocal locals to be honest. Sometimes they are spending public money on ridiculous things and not speaking up for the village on others.

Yes but it's not good for decision making. It's really not great for the other people on the committee.

Galaxy

That's interesting notspaghetti, we have 3 members of the same family on our parish council, I wonder if it is quite common. Not at all healthy.

In villages where the same families have lived for generations, it’s quite common for several members of the family to still live there, so not unusual for them to be on the parish council.

SueDonim off thread but it wasn’t the Grange school was it?

It’s very tame when compared to a PTA meeting at my DD’s school in Nigeria, when angry parents (not me, I remained in my seat as a spectator!) rushed the committee, wrestling ensued and punches were thrown.

This was just before smart phones were a thing, otherwise I have no doubt it would have gone viral.

I do feel sorry for people when something goes viral that they thought would only be seen by a few.

Just shows anything online can be seen by the whole world forever.

It is funny though.

That's interesting notspaghetti, we have 3 members of the same family on our parish council, I wonder if it is quite common. Not at all healthy.

The village idiot competition is going to be tight.

Parish fuss- pots and busy-bodies. I'd rule them all with a rod of iron !

By the way, the minutes are below the video and you can (if you want) watch the prequel from there.

eazybee

So very easy to sneer.
Do any of you volunteer to serve, because that's what it is ?
Unpaid and unacknowledged and certainly unappreciated.

You may consider them fools, but are you prepared to volunteer and take their place?
Of course not.

You are SO wrong eezybee. I have tried TWICE to get involved in Parish council meetings. When I lived in a village it was completely ruled by one family with fingers in every pie. They chose to gentrify the area, buy floodlights to beautify the church (no need at the back) and did nothing about the handful of elderly "original" locals who needed the bus service and library van fighting for. Not a chance of getting involved in that.

Then we moved house and I tried again. It co-incided with a massive new housing development proposal. Arguably half the council members had (it later turned out) relatives with hidden interests such as daughters married to people set to inherit the building "empire"... My first half-a dozen meetings were horrendous with a useless (and ancient) chair who should have been sacked.
I found trying to be useful was as useful as smashing my head open with a lump hammer.

Do not tar everyone with the same brush.

Jackie Weaver aka Brittany came out of that very well. The pompous man and the out of control, rude, bullying shouting man did not.

Just men behaving badly.

A lot of councils record their meetings if you know where to look.You can find out who voted for or against things etc.

eazybee the councillors don’t get paid, but the clerk is usually salaried, similarly the chief financial officer and admin staff.

scary when you think of fools like this running councils
Ellan That's right! You were probably even more scared just like what I was when I first saw "Yes Minister" and "Fawlty Towers!
How such fools got away with it is beyond me
And the popular masses called it humour!

I used to be on the PCC at our local Church and stuck it for about three years. I resigned when I went back to work full-time, as I didn't have that amount of time to waste - too many people constantly complaining about the same thing at every meeting; picking holes in any new suggestion; manipulating the agenda etc etc.
I've avoided committees ever since!

Gosh, thanks Galaxy. Not often I am called succinct!

You put it more succinctly than I did gagajo.

It strikes me eazybee, that those of them who caused the disruption are not serving the community, but only their own egos.

Yes I do eazybee, in a different capacity but yes. And have done all my life. The sooner we recognise that people who volunteer are not saints the better it will be. I have volunteered in a number of different capacities, I got as much from those positions as I gave back. It would be helpful if we were all honest about that.

Hilarious ???