The grandly-titled and Labour-dominated ”Councillors Commission” has published a grand-sounding report entitled “Representing The Future”, and today they have handed the whole shebang to Communities Secretary and Salford MP Hazel Blears. She said:
“Today’s independent report has come up with genuinely radical ideas to improve local democracy and representation.”
I really hope that this is politician-speak for “I wouldn’t touch most of those recommendations with a bargepole”, because the many of the recommendations (61 in total) are some of the worst Labour Party claptrap I have seen in a long time.
I should point out that there is some common sense amongst the nonsense. I’ll repeat recommendation 3 in full here for the benefit of the Salford Labour Party Councillor who vote to hold all of our meetings during the day:
In order to ensure that as many people as possible can participate in local representative democracy, the role of a councillor must be compatible with full-time employment and an executive councillor with full or part-time employment.
Abolishing Elections (and other stories)
The grandly-titled and Labour-dominated ”Councillors Commission” has published a grand-sounding report entitled “Representing The Future”, and today they have handed the whole shebang to Communities Secretary and Salford MP Hazel Blears. She said:
I really hope that this is politician-speak for “I wouldn’t touch most of those recommendations with a bargepole”, because the many of the recommendations (61 in total) are some of the worst Labour Party claptrap I have seen in a long time.
I should point out that there is some common sense amongst the nonsense. I’ll repeat recommendation 3 in full here for the benefit of the Salford Labour Party Councillor who vote to hold all of our meetings during the day:
If you’re suffering from insomnia, you can read the whole thing here. If not, you can catch up on some of the gimmicks over at BBC News Online or read the common-sense response from Shadow Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
Let’s have a look at some of the “highlights”:
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