howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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21 October 2010
18:0975925we discussed on here a while back about dover district having an elected mayor.
swale council here in the garden of england sent out 127,000 questionnaires asking their citizens whether they thought it would be a wizard prang to have one.
they were besieged by 13 replies, 9 for and 4 against.
looks like a bit of a non starter.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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21 October 2010
18:1675929howard
until polticians clean up there act mayors or elected mayors a non starter
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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21 October 2010
18:5675943don't think that is the issue keith, elected mayors are more important in major cities and large towns.
the mayor has to be charismatic for example london has had ken livingstone and boris johnson, middlesborough had that ex copper with attitude, ray mallon.
does dover have such a figure?
sit down vic!!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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21 October 2010
19:0375945howard
part of having such a person must first get people motivated that poltics and mayors to be a good thing
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21 October 2010
19:5475957The lady Mayor we have has got all that and more she is doing a great job leave her alone.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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21 October 2010
20:0975959i think you have missed the point alan, our present mayor and others before her perform a ceremonial role, working with voluntary organisations, local community events and small businesses trying to get going.
an elected mayor has a budget and powers that enable him or her to control the police, transport system, housing and other serious things.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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21 October 2010
20:1175960swale already have a mayor and its normally one of the swale mayors who volunteer for it.. makes sense.
and i cant be doing with the voting in all honesty.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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21 October 2010
20:1775961different thing altogether jenni, as explained to alan.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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21 October 2010
20:2575963no wonder i am confused!!
Lol.. so an elected one would have more power.. but surely thats a bad idea.. yet another loop to jump through for the groups, effectively tying up more time and money.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
21 October 2010
21:2475965Thankyou Howard, I always wondered what our mayors actually did
. Do they still have to do their normal councillor work as well.
If we had an elected mayor they would more or less perform the same duties as the council leader of the party in power do now. So a single elected person would decide the budgets rather than the majority party. Has this old lady got the principle right.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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21 October 2010
22:0575974something like that jan, our present mayor of dover is chosen by the ruling party on the town council.
the idea of an elected mayor in a town of our size is frankly ludicrous.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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21 October 2010
22:1675978I agree, Howard. Sue is a lovely lady but I am sure she would not want the responsibility of executive power such as you described above in post #6. Can't speak for some of her Labour colleagues, though......
PG.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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21 October 2010
22:2375980I wll avoid those that wish to just make this into an attack on some labour persons
and on the subject of elected mayors think i share howards view
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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21 October 2010
22:2975986Ashford had a consultation about stopping having a Mayor..... one reply !!!
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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21 October 2010
22:3275989says it all paul.
leave it to the big conurbations that need it.
keith
what attack on the reds?
21 October 2010
22:3375990not long now, Ed Miliband will soon be prime minister, sorry to go of tact but what is this wishful thinking about Ed Miliband his he some wannabe who wants to con the British Public, you know there are some sore losers in the Country.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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21 October 2010
22:4675995That is Keith's signature and is after all his posts, Alan.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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21 October 2010
22:4975996post 12 last 8 letters
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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21 October 2010
22:5276000Our Mayor is a working one with her own work as a ward Cllr on top of her job as Mayor she goes to some 200+ events each year and heads all the full town council meetings and has the casting vote on any town council committee she is also works with the Town clark on staffing matters. so yes she is a very hard working mayor.