30-12-2011, 05:33 PM
David my example was deliberately 'stupid' but I could put forward such a motion and people would assume that it was certain to fail.
I think that Ken was trying to show that you could have a situation where everyone at the meeting agreed that an amendment made sense but the number of proxies cast for the original motion meant that it was carried even though the amended version was better. Or alternatively the motion was defeated because of proxy votes but that the proposed amendment would have been an acceptable compromise that virtually everyone would have been happy with.
I think that Ken was trying to show that you could have a situation where everyone at the meeting agreed that an amendment made sense but the number of proxies cast for the original motion meant that it was carried even though the amended version was better. Or alternatively the motion was defeated because of proxy votes but that the proposed amendment would have been an acceptable compromise that virtually everyone would have been happy with.