Why don't the RA want your Questions?

When Liberal Democrat councillors proposed that local residents should be permitted to ask questions at meetings of the whole council, they were voted down.

This is despite a council report which confirms that the majority of borough councils in Surrey allow questions to either the full council, the executive or the committees. During the debate at a meeting of the Strategy & Resources Committee on 30th January, a councillor from the ruling Residents' Party suggested that the they were doing such an excellent job that no-one would want to ask any questions.

The matter goes forward to a meeting of the full council on 20th February. Let Julie Morris or Jonathan Lees have your views : do you think there should be a facility for local residents to ask any question when the whole council is assembled?