00:01Hayden, next please. I won't ask you to introduce yourself again, but I will reiterate you have three minutes. Thank you.
00:09Thank you for allowing me to speak this evening. I'm here as a young person of Milton Keynes, and as someone who cares deeply about the safety and well-being of this community.
00:20Mayor, can I raise a point of order, please? What point of order would you wish to raise?
00:25Yes. Before that last person spoke, when the young person was just finished speaking, somebody from that area of the council chamber, I don't know who it was,
00:35sounded like there was a profanity of a word beginning with F, and then off was said.
00:40That is disrespectful for anybody in this chamber to use, especially when it is a young person, member of the public, who is speaking.
00:47Would that person be man enough or big enough to apologise and own up to it, and apologise to the person in person?
00:55I think it's the very least that he deserves.
00:58Thank you. As I said at the beginning, I ask that we all conduct ourselves in a respectable manner in this chamber,
01:05and if so, whoever that person were, if they would like to be able to raise themselves to apologise to the individual, they're more than welcome to.
01:14I will address the issue in my closing remarks.
01:23Councillor Marland, as the mover of the second amendment, will you sum up?
01:27Thank you, and I think I would like to start by saying at the end of one of the members of the public speeches,
01:33I did use a profanity, and for that I absolutely apologise directly to the council and to the member of public present.
01:42But what I won't accept, both actually from members of the public, from the leader of the opposition, from actually Jane,
01:52this is a political council.
01:54Last time I checked, every single one of us in this chamber was elected with a political badge next to us.
02:01The idea that we can't have political debates, or that we can't criticise members of the public who turn up when three of them are likely to be conservative candidates,
02:11and one was recently at the Conservative Party conference damning the current Conservative Party leader, is wrong.
02:17If people turn up to speak and are political, it is a political debate, and absolutely right that it should be conducted in the right way.
02:24But it is political.
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