The other day I received an e-mail from Manchester Confidential entitled “Exclusive: Sir Howard Bernstein wants your questions on Congestion Charging“. The article in question can be found here.
I’m intrigued and also very concerned by this. Sir Howard is one of only a handful of Local Government officers to have a media profile of his own, but at the end of the day he is still an officer – albeit a very senior one – and he will find it almost impossible to take questions from allcomers about what is probably the number one political hot potato in Greater Manchester without himself stepping into the political sphere.
This makes for a very uncomfortable precedent. It is the politicians who make the decisions and they ought to be the ones up on the platform defending and explaining those decisions.
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