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Originally Posted by Houseboy
I think that for local government to really work to any great degree we must totally ban party politics from it altogether. Party politics has no place in local government. I believe, as I you do Jay, that we would be much better served by independents with no politcal axe to grind. Of course I am not naive enough to think that this will ever happen but it would be good wouldn't it?
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Originally Posted by gynn
Councillors are local representatives first, and politicians a long way second!
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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Local government is a totally different beast from Westminster.
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Here in Morecambe a large group of Independents controlled Lancaster City Council for several years in the early 2000s. When a Morecambe Town Council was formed a few years ago they won all but one of the 26 seats. Since then they have split into at least three different groups which seem to fight each other all the time about local issues and have achieved very little for the town and its residents.