Compromise the order of the day at NFDC EGM.
Anyone anticipating a verbal bloodbath at today’s Extraordinary General Meeting of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors will have been badly disappointed as all sides of the internal furore that has gripped the Federation for the past few weeks appear to have called a temporary cease fire. For now, at least.
The meeting, which some predicted would spell the end of Paul Brown’s embattled presidency closed with Brown still sporting the chains of office.
And while others had suggested that the position of the Federation’s Executive Committee would be rendered untenable if Brown remained in post, DemolitionNews sources report that the committee has merely had its wings clipped amidst admissions of previous mistakes and promises of greater transparency and accountability going forward.
In an ironic twist, that promise of greater transparency was offset with a call to members to not discuss the meeting with members of the press.
Whether this will heal the deepening rifts within the Federation or to see off a likely defection of Scottish members remains to be seen.
But when the Federation rank and file meet again in a few weeks’ time for the Annual General Meeting, president Paul Brown will be seated at the top table: battered, bruised, but unbowed.
