A six hour meeting lasting until 1am – confusing, repetitive, unwieldy and unworkable. It must be perfectly clear to all by now that this authority as constituted is not fit for purpose. BCP Council cannot operate with so many councillors. It is behemoth, too large to be able to work in a proper democratic fashion. Too many people speak for too long and effectively say nothing, others line up one after another to say the same thing. Tuesday night’s agenda was too long, and there needs to be a time limit on council meetings after which unresolved business should be deferred.