Letter: So Will the GBC Constitution Be Changed to Allow Fairer Debate?

Published on: 23 Aug, 2025
Updated on: 23 Aug, 2025

Simon Higgins speaking at the full council meeting.

From Bernard Quoroll

former local authority CEO and independent person at GBC

In response to: What I Said About Barclay’s Bank Was Incorrect

So Cllr Lucas acknowledges that his response to Mr Higgins at the full council meeting was “with hindsight” incorrect. He confirms that there is no right of reply or correction under the council’s constitution. I never doubted his integrity. But what he does not say is whether his answer would have been any different had he been appraised of the correct information.

I suspect I already know the answer to that, but rather than leave a “hanging chad”, perhaps he could now make clear whether his answer would have been different. Not doing so smacks of replacing one constitutional impediment by another.

It also raises the issue whether the GBC constitution might not easily be redrafted so as to be less restrictive of a voter’s passionately felt desire to bring a matter before the public. Would it not for example, be possible to include a time limited supplementary question or correction requiring a response? I fear I know the answer to that one too!

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