Well, I'd expected to talk three times from the podium, but East Somerset Health's motion on the murder of Hadi Salih was ruled invalid on a technical reason, it wasn't okayed by a offical branch executive meeting, although most of the members of the branch exec were happy with it. Plymouth City withdrew their motion on Antisocial Behaviour Orders, which I would have spoken in opposition. So the only chance I had was to speak in support of an anti-privatisation motion.
A motion attacking the gradual privatisation in the NHS is not going to be controversial in a UNISON regional council of course so I didn't have to persuade anyone, but it was good to get a first experience of public speaking like that, in front of around 100 people including Dave Prentis himself.
I have to write a report on Council for our next Branch Executive which is on Thursday morning, so I'll post it on here.
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