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Originally Posted by JCB
I would prefer a non-party political Council , made up of independent minded people who run the Council in a non-party way . There is no great divide between the parties locally . Even nationally the divide is small . The Liberal Democrats , for example , have sunk their differences with the Conservatives to form a coalition . Labour were at one point close to doing it with the Liberals.
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It's a nice ideology but in practice it would almost certainly not work. A council needs to work by collective judgement, not a loosely connected group of individuals. The party system enables stronger and more cohesive decision-making and I'm afraid that even if every councillor was independent you would still get political bitching.
The only possible way around it is if the whole council was either Labour or Conservative and even then it is highly likely that there would be some degree of in-fighting, if not publicly then behind closed doors.
I'm afraid there's just no surefire way around oneupmanship within politics, wherever you have a seat of power then someone will always think they can do it better.