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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
John...it wouldn't matter if elected members had previously fought a ward under a political banner.
The main point is, they would have been elected...chosen by the people for their skills and talents in managing some aspect of life for the borough...rather than being chosen just because they are Labour/Conservative/Independent.
There would be no political banner getting in the way of them doing a good job(or precluding them from being elected if they had the right skill/talents)...and no opportunity to sling mud...backbite purely on the grounds of their political banner.
They could all pull in the same direction for once instead of seeing other councillors as the enemy.
It has to be a better way.........and change of this sort has to be looked at, considered and tried before it is condemned out of hand.
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Your missing my point Margaret, if the council were to go independent and, as I suspect, all the usual suspects are elected although now independent, do you actually think that old prejudices would just go away and it would be just one big happy family all working together for the good of the community
it ain't going to happen believe me, you have two or three totally different points of view on what is wrong and what is the right way to do things, the once Labour members wouldn't agree with once Tory members or independent, it just wouldn't happen, they'd still be fighting in lumps, but instead of being parties it would be cliques one to the left and one to the right
