#19621
Sir Humphrey
Flatchatter

    Yes, I know from bitter experience that it is easy to knock over a special resolution. A concerted campaign to round up a sufficient minority of ‘no’ votes does not need to do much more than assert that there are ‘questions to be answered’. No matter that in our OC the questions had been answered in the detailed written proposal. People seem to pay far more attention to someone talking than a carefully prepared written proposal mailed to owners. 

    Of course, the proposal originally raised here might have insufficient information and it might be a lousy proposal. If that is case it should be easy to defeat: 30 owners. Say 20 take part in the meeting. All you need to find is 4 others in whom you can sow just enough doubt that they give you a proxy to say no. 

    Still, I would urge you to find out if it might actually be a good proposal by talking directly to EC members. Perhaps they just were not so good at writing the proposal? Perhaps they don’t realise that various merits of the proposal are not obvious, and things they thought would go without saying actually do need saying?