I’m afraid my pick from the papers this week relates yet again to Belonging Communities. Meetings are being held across the County to discuss them but their role is still not clear. It seems to me that they will muddy the responsibilities of Parish Councils and Councillors but without having clear responsibilities themselves. They are an example of the centralising plans of the new Council.
There are lots of reasons to vote Conservative on 1 May (I’ll probably write about them in the next few weeks) but the organisation of the new Council is a critical one. At the moment Labour with Lib Dem support plan a cabinet of 8 councillors, 3 area committees (too remote to be useful) and the 27 mini-quangos, Belonging Communities. We need to break the Labour majority to no overall control and to ensure Conservatives have a strong voice on the new Council so these plans can be modified to keep the provision of services local and with identifiable responsibilities. Sorry to go on about this, but I do think it matters and the other parties are letting it pass by.
There are lots of reasons to vote Conservative on 1 May (I’ll probably write about them in the next few weeks) but the organisation of the new Council is a critical one. At the moment Labour with Lib Dem support plan a cabinet of 8 councillors, 3 area committees (too remote to be useful) and the 27 mini-quangos, Belonging Communities. We need to break the Labour majority to no overall control and to ensure Conservatives have a strong voice on the new Council so these plans can be modified to keep the provision of services local and with identifiable responsibilities. Sorry to go on about this, but I do think it matters and the other parties are letting it pass by.
1 comment:
Keep going on about it. It does matter. We matter.
C xx
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