Read them and understand them (61/365)

I'm sure most of you will have encountered the Handforth Parish Council video and its many spinoffs (including sea shanty, trailer for a political thriller and indie band) a few weeks ago. For anyone who didn't, this was a video of a meeting of a parish council in Cheshire where a senior local government official who had been called in to support the meeting amid accusations of bullying behaviour by some councillors dealt admirably with the troublemakers, which ended up becoming a viral sensation. Probably the most-quoted phrase was "YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY HERE, JACKIE WEAVER!" (shortly before the speaker was removed from the meeting for disruptive behaviour), but only slightly behind was "READ THE STANDING ORDERS. READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM!", which, for obvious reasons, is now the automatic response to any mention of our standing orders at work.

However, there are problems with actually reading the standing orders. For instance, discovering that representatives of a particular should have been invited to attend a particular meeting and have not, in fact, been invited to do so since 2013...