Originally Posted by Punki
I thought the original proposal was perfect, simple and workable.
There's a big part of the problem with the motion as it stood there. You thought it was perfect, so were not willing to listen to any comments, concerns or criticisms (as indeed your whole post shows) and blanket-ignored anyone who disagreed with you - hence your attribution of the loss of this vote to 'politics'. It's perfect to you, so no-one else's problems with it are in any way shape or form valid, so you can just dismiss them
Unfortunately, that kind of approach is not particularly effective when you are trying to get a 2/3rds majority of people in favour. It lost because there were problems identified with the execution, no attempt was made to resolve any of those problems, and as such, it was not going to generate a majority consensus, never mind a 2/3rds majority consensus.