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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
>>No. Council has very few powers now. It passes the budget thats all. Plus any constitutional changes and passes the minutes of meetings. Thats it. Everything else ends at the Cabinet. Its a very closed system designed to fast track desicions.<<
If this is so, then what is the point going to all the fuss and expense of electing so many councillors?
Democracy matters I guess. There's no workable alternatives?
And where does the idea of democracy feature in all this fast-track jerrymandering?
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It doesn't. As it currently stands PB constitutionally has the last say on everything and if he hears something he doesn't like he will lie to the opposite extreme to muddy the waters. He generously gave the opposition 2 debates a year, however at the end of the debate the summing up is done by him [can you believe that!].
And of course because we dont have cross debating, you cant challange a lie or a deciet, its always the last word. He rarely does scrutiny and is clever and devious and helped by Tory chairs its always a whitewash. Its totally corrupt and we are going to pay an awful price for that moral corruption.