Conwy council's rules state that if councillors reject a plan against the advice of the authority's officers, the decision has to come back to the next meeting to be re-affirmed.
Mr Plant said he had written a letter to Johnston Press on behalf of the borough councillors to state they opposed any suggestion of Mr Stokoe losing his post as editor.
And here to East Grinstead in Sussex, Scientology's UK hub, councillors or auditors learn to read your emotional state with what they call an E-meter, designed by L.Ron.