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Originally Posted by jaysay
Okay Margaret, we'll take politics out of local government and all councillors will have to stand on their own independent ticket, so you get a ballot paper with two candidates on, lets just say Ken Moss and Peter Britcliffe, 99% of people will look and say ah Mossy's Labour and Britcliffe's a Tory, that's why you'll never manage it, unless you bar the present incumbents from entering the election or people who have stood on a political ticket before, it ain't going to happen, the only thing is I totally agree with you and have done for a very long time, but know it hasn't a snowballs chance of happening, because political parties won't let it
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You miss my point entirely. The elections would be for local government officers with
no party allegiance...they would
not be standing as 'Independents' because we would be taking politics out of the equation.
They would be judged on how they could do the job, what skills they had in certain aspects of what was required, their local knowledge of the area which they wanted to support in their work...
not which political banner they sheltered under.
Maybe it would take a while for people to forget thay had allegiances with a political party...but perhaps it would stop the divides that party politics puts up...and allow the local government officers to work together with less rancour and backstabbing(we have all read of how certain people storm out of meetings because of political dogma and short sightedness, petty name calling. These are playground tactics, 'showboating' and should have no place in the council chamber).....because this gets in the way of getting local isues sorted.
The mindset of politics, in relation to local issues, needs to be altered and altered radically.