{"id":337710,"date":"2025-08-12T06:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337710\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T06:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:05:11","slug":"emergency-sefton-council-meeting-calls-rejected-after-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337710\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Sefton Council meeting calls rejected after disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I cannot understand the logic of letting a disturbance in the public gallery lock up council business,&#8221; said Pugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that he found it &#8220;baffling&#8221; when he compared his life as the MP for Southport between 2001-2017 with life in the council chamber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;During my time in the [House of] Commons I witnessed chemicals thrown into the chamber and terrorist attacks that cost lives, but the democratic process continued as normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sefton has keeled over because of a bit of shouting in the public gallery and let it mess up business as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Atkinson accused Pugh of &#8220;petty political posturing&#8221; and said the mayor&#8217;s decision to halt the meeting on safety grounds had been &#8220;sensible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said some of her female colleagues had faced misogynistic abuse from protestors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Aggressive and bullying behaviour must and will be met with a zero-tolerance approach,&#8221; said Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that Pugh &#8220;should not belittle the genuine fears that councillors and staff had about their safety, in addition to the fact children were also in the gallery on the night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I cannot understand the logic of letting a disturbance in the public gallery lock up council business,&#8221; said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115014292312476813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}