Taken from the blog site run by j kaschke:
http://jkaschke.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/referendum-for-mayor-in-tower-hamlets
Referendum for Mayor in Tower Hamlets
Initially I was for but now I am against and why because I have read some good arguments about it and shall reproduce them here:
“On May 6th 2010, as well as the usual Council Elections, and possibly a General Election, there will be a referendum asking Tower Hamlets Residents to vote on whether Tower Hamlets Council should have a directly elected Mayor or not.
We are an all party group of local residents who have come together to campaign against the proposal for a directly elected Mayor because:
1. A directly elected Mayor will marginalise your democratically elected councillors.
2. A directly elected Mayor would damage the representative nature of our council – only one view would matter.
3. Scrutiny of decision-making would be weakened with the public and councillors powerless to hold the directly elected Mayor to account.
4. A directly elected Mayor can appoint non-elected advisors who would not be accountable to local people.
5. There is no provision to remove an incompetent directly elected Mayor.
I think those points make a lot of sense and if we have Mayors in London Boroughs as well as in London we defilate the system of elected representation.
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Monday, 3 May 2010
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