Site: CotH,
Section: Hackery,
Page: Rules.
This is why you should never ask Steering to disregard the rules. They might get irritated enough to do it.
Scene: A Council Meeting
| Chair: | Any questions on the Steering report? |
| Rules Revision Member: | Why isn't the motion to add a full stop to the end of SO K 3.7.2 in? |
| Clerk: | It was ruled out of order due to late submission. It'll be discussed at next Council. |
| Rules Revision Member: | Okay. |
| President: | That's ridiculous and unnecessary bureaucracy. It was only a couple of hours late. |
| Clerk: | The rules state that SO changes cannot be emergency business. They therefore must be submitted by the stated deadline. |
| President: | Can you just ignore that rule this time? It'd make things so much easier. |
| Clerk: | We can't and shouldn't ignore the rules. |
| President: | Stop being obstructive. There's no good reason this shouldn't be discussed. |
| Clerk: | Suit yourself. Let's get this over with and discuss it now. |
| Chair: | Proposer for the motion? |
| Rules Revision Member: | It's just basic tidying up. Please pass it. |
| Chair: | Any questions? |
| Chair: | No? Can we take this on a general aye? |
| All: | Aye! |
| Chair: | Good. Can we move to announcements now? |
| Clerk: | I'm afraid not. We've just this second received a motion of No Confidence in the President! |
| President: | Is that allowed?! |
| Clerk: | Not by the rules, but since, at your request, we're ignoring the emergency business restrictions, we'll allow it. |
| Chair: | Okay. Speech in proposition, then? |
| SRO: | Formally. |
| President: | Oh, you're proposing it! |
| Chair: | Any formal opposition? |
| President: | Yes! This is absurd! It's ridiculous! It's insane! |
| Chair: | Any questions? |
| Clerk: | I'm afraid we've run out of time on this debate, we'll have to move to a vote. |
| Chair: | Oh, okay. All those in favour? |
| Chair: | All those against? |
| SRO: | Okay, we make this two votes for, and seventy votes against, therefore the motion passes. |
| Chair: | You mean fails, surely? |
| SRO: | No, we're ignoring the requirement for a majority for now. |
| Chair: | Can you do that? |
| SRO: | The ex-President thinks we can ignore rules. So we are. |
| ex-President: | Hey, I'm not ex-President yet. |
| Clerk: | Yes you are, you've been no confidenced. |
| Senior Rep: | This is silly. You've made your point. Can we get on with the meeting? |
| Clerk: | Okay. |
| Chair: | Right. Reports of Officers. The President. |
| Clerk: | Point of Order, we don't have a President at the moment. |
| ex-President: | Yes we do! |
| Clerk: | You've been no confidenced, go away. |
| ex-President: | Aaaargh! Kill them! |
| Bulky Goon: | No you don't! Thwack |
| ex-President | Ow! Ow! Ow! |
| Council: | Where did he come from?! |
| Clerk: | We hired him. |
| Finance Committee Chair: | Don't you need our approval for that sort of spending? |
| Clerk: | Well, the rules say we do, but we ignored that. |
| Finance Committee Chair: | Okay. Can I have one too? |
| Clerk: | I suppose so. |
| Finance Committee Chair: | Right. Now, where's the Treasurer gone? |
| Treasurer: | Help! I resign! |
| Clerk: | You can't resign. It's only allowed by the rules. |
| ex-President: | Okay, I'm sorry. I get the point! |
| Clerk: | Right, okay. Procedural motion to go back in time to the middle of Item 1. |
| Junior Rep: | Point of Order: Is there such a procedural motion? |
| Clerk: | No. But we'll ignore that for now. |
| Chair: | Can we take this procedural motion on a general aye? |
| All: | Aye! |
| Chair: | Are there any questions on the Steering report? |
| Rules Revision Member: | Why isn't the motion to add a full stop to the end of SO K 3.7.2 in? |
| Clerk: | It was ruled out of order due to late submission. It'll be discussed at next Council. |
| Rules Revision Member: | Okay. |
| Chair: | Any announcements? |
| Chair: | Right. Reports of Officers. The President. |
| President: | I've recently been having this strange sense of dejá vù. It almost seems like I shouldn't be here. Anyway, since I wrote that report, I've ........... |
Site: CotH,
Section: Hackery,
Page: Rules.