Governance and the RCVS. No see, no hear, no give a **** what the membership think.
In April the results of the RCVS Council were announced. Three candidates were elected, Zara Kennedy, Sinéad Bennett and David Barrett. All of the candidates made it clear in their manifestoes that they were completely opposed to an appointed Council. Looking at the manifestoes of all 14 candidates, it appears that most were opposed to an appointments system, some vehemently. Scroll forward six weeks to the 10th of June and the first day of the RCVS consultation on Governance. What do we find ? An acceptance of the membership's near total rejection of an appointed Council ? Far from it. Instead we have page upon page of biased 'recommendations' and a tone deaf video by Sue Patterson here which is billed as 'An Introduction to our Good Governance Consultation.' In reality it's a one-sided propaganda piece in which we're told that we must move to an appointed system because it is the norm . An example of the norm she used was the GMC - the General Me