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Originally Posted by Houseboy
Jay, I take your point about not letting the present incumbents stand under the new system (the theoretical one that we know would never happen but it would be nice to think it could), after all if it is good enough for the presidency of the United States it's good enough for a Hyndburn councilor.
Our hypothetical new order would indeed need to be contested by "unknowns", which might be off-putting to a lot of people but, since the present system (in my view) leaves a lot to be desired I don't see it as a bad thing. There would be the problem of experience (or lack of it) but then everyone has to learn by their mistakes. Maybe we could even adopt the US presidency model and stop anyone from being re-elected after a certain amount of time. That would solve a lot of corruption problems.
What a wonderful dream!!!
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To be honest I don't think that anything on the American model would fly in this country, nor should it, if your talking about corruption in politics, using the yankee plan here would be a disaster, lets face it its not how good you are in the good old US of A its how many bucks you've got behind you. No, rather than going down that road I'll stick with what we've got, and I have to say in all my time in and around local government I certainly haven't seen corruption, misguided individuals who appear from time to time hoping to use there influences for their own purposes, but even those incidents are very very rare, on the whole irrespective of party you get people who set out to try and make a difference, and most of them DO achieve that