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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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Graham Jones pointed out some years ago that there is hardly a queue of people lined up to be councillors.
Despite the perceived gravy train and corruption, most people realise that it's a thankless, bloody hard job.