With the very positive help of Coun Phil Groves, we have together brought the subject of toilet closures back to council for further debate on Monday, April 3.
It was very easy to collect sufficient votes - councillors were queuing up to sign.
I would like to issue a challenge to all Malvern Hills councillors who may be present at the meeting to feel that they are allowed to vote to each person's own conscience, rather than vote under the banner of politics. After all, every one of us uses a lavatory, which makes it impossible to think of that venue as a political issue!
Without the restriction of the party whips, we might, or might not, win the day. If we do not, then that is an end to it. If we did get sufficient votes to go further down this long and tortuous road, we could perhaps then re-start meaningful negotiations, with every concerned party being able to meet round the table with the aim of providing a reasonable standard of public hygiene both for our residents, and for our visitors.
It doesn't seem like rocket science, does it? Let's try and behave like reasonable, sensible people. Let us play this game without politics - if only for the sake of those hundreds of voters who have told us what they want!
Coun Mary Wilkinson, (Independent, Upton).
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