committee-speechlisted
Install: claude install-skill SeagullTwo/uk-planning-skills
# Committee speech
Somebody has a slot. It is two, three or four minutes, it happens once, and it is heard by
members who may not have read the papers closely. This skill writes what they say.
**A committee speech is a different instrument from a written objection.** The objection is read
at leisure by the case officer, who is paid to read it. The speech is heard once, aloud, under a
clock, by people deciding a dozen items in an evening. So the job is not to compress the
objection. It is to **select** the few points that can move a vote, **frame** each as the
decision the committee is actually taking, and **sequence** them across the available speakers
without repetition.
Adapted from a skill contributed by **JH** — see `CHANGELOG.md`. The speech craft in it is
theirs.
## Scope: this writes objector speeches, and says so
**This skill argues one side.** It is for the person standing up to oppose an application, and
it is written as their advocate. That is a deliberate choice and it is declared here rather than
disguised, because the rest of this repo is careful about neutrality and a reader is entitled to
know where the posture changes.
It is legitimate for the same reason `policy-representation` is: **an objector is a party**, and
writing a party's case at their instruction is not the same act as an analysis skill quietly
taking a side. What would not be legitimate is pretending the output is balanced. It is not.
**The integrity constraint survives the advocacy, and it