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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
And that, Cash, is why political bias should be removed from local elections.
It is expected that the people who wish to be councillors have a desire to serve the community.......do they really need a political banner to enable then to do so?......My own feeling is that they don't, and that political ties just get in the way of these people doing a good job.
If I wanted to be a councillor, I could not align myself to any political party........OK, I could be an independent, but in my view people(the electorate) see independents as indecisive, weak as water and because they are not aligned to any of the major political parties, they haven't much clout.
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Depoliticising local councils has always been a thing I have passionately believed in for many years, but I'm afraid that will never happen, especially when the former leader of the labour group often branded every Tory Councillor as a wast of space. As I have often said there are good hardworking councillors in all parties, I might not always agree with Ken Bernard and Joan but from what I have heard and indeed read in the local press they do a fine job for there own areas, that is all the public ask of their elected representatives. Peter Britcliffe has come in for some tremendous stick on her, some of it totally justified, but ask most people in Ossy who their councillor is, they will say PB irrespective of which ward they live, because like it or not over the last 28 years he's worked bloody hard for Ossy and he HAS made a difference, when all's said and done that's why most people go into politics, and if they don't they shouldn't be there in the first place.