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Do we need fewer politicians?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3045193.stm
Here in Bristol, it's getting quite comfortable having no effective local authority leadership. The council issued a statement saying services will continue to run as normal and they do.
There is no noticeable effect apart from making one wonder if this could work long-term. With the regional development agencies, national and European representation in both parliaments, is there a need for local councillors or at least so many.
Here in Bristol, it's getting quite comfortable having no effective local authority leadership. The council issued a statement saying services will continue to run as normal and they do.
There is no noticeable effect apart from making one wonder if this could work long-term. With the regional development agencies, national and European representation in both parliaments, is there a need for local councillors or at least so many.
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i'd put my money on an awful lot of them being totaly pointless.
Will let you know.................laters
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Maybe they should cut cards to decide who gets to be in charge:
http://icayrshire.icnetwork.co.uk/news/localnews/ayr/page.cfm?objectid=12981982&method=full&siteid=73592&headline=NEW%20PROVOST%20WINS%20AT%20CARDS
Edited due to bad link.
The millenium Dome is perhaps the best illustration of where common sense was not applied.
I live near 4 tube stations and could fairly easily get to the dome if I wanted to but I didn't - it had no appeal for me at all. So then I have to ask myself well, what appeal does it have for people in the midlands, wales, or as far away as Scotland?
And to fork out a Billion pounds to build it and then ask another £20 to see it was pretty insulting.
Our local council took one area and decided it need to be revitalised so they spend £1 million blocking off all the traffic to the area so people could walk around the area more easily .. what happened? ... well cos people couldn't drive into the area now they stopped going there and it turned the place into a ghost town.
1. Reduce the number of councillors per ward to one instead of three. Most are all from the same party anyway so it'd have little effect.
2. Abolish all local councils which are a confusing quagmire that few people know or care about. Instead have one representative from each ward go to a regional assembly which would decide on the things councils and regional quangos/assemblies currently decide on including the emergency services, education, social services etc.
The benefits would be:
- a single, easily recognised body of local government which would have noticeable powers over every day life thus encouraging people to take an interest.
- there is still local representation through having one member for each ward.
- cost savings from selling and amalgamating numerous town halls and local government bureaucracies and reducing the number of councillors by two thirds. Also there would be cost savings from awarding contracts because of the economics of scale which could be achieved by awarding contracts regionally rather than locally.
Of course this will never happen because no party is going to annoy two thirds of its councillors which is a hell of a lot of party members by reducing councillors representation to one per ward.