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Originally Posted by jaysay
To my way of thinking this system is JA Rank to start with, we have 35 councillors and a handful of cabinet members the scrutiny panels, there was nothing wrong with the old committee system, more people were involved and there was better debate, or there should have been, change ain't always the best  |
I've heard tell of these old committees and it didn't sound like a bad system at all.
I've no major beef with the current system although it's pretty disorganised and no one has a clue what each one is for. To my mind it would be better to for cabinet to go the whole hog and properly mirror Westminster's key positions and then have scrutiny committees for each one with proper cross-party debate. It's supposed to happen now but all the chairs and vice-chairs just happen to be supporters of the Leader.
The one thing that seriously needs to go is all these massive allowances for doing naff all. There's no extra work involved at all in being a chairman, it's the biggest case of 'jobs for the boys' that exists within HBC.