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Post by peterl on Dec 15, 2014 17:44:55 GMT
For those of us interested in parish politics, the Government are consulting over proposed changes to parish polls. www.gov.uk/government/consultations/parish-polls" A parish poll allows for a ballot of local government electors in the parish to be called on any question arising at a parish meeting. The consultation seeks the views of the public, local authorities and the parish sector on: the trigger (the number or proportion of electors required to demand a poll) the voting arrangements for parish polls the questions on which a poll can be held consequential related matters" In a nutshell, the Government seem to want to make it harder to trigger a parish poll, narrow the range of questions to things within the powers of a parish to do and standardise the voting arrangements (times of poll, postal votes etc). |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Dec 22, 2014 21:12:13 GMT
Good. Parish Polls are too often abused, giving a small number of people with an axe to grind the opportunity to waste other people's money.
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 22, 2014 22:55:14 GMT
Good. Parish Polls are too often abused, giving a small number of people with an axe to grind the opportunity to waste other people's money. Hmmmmmmmmm!! Sounds very like government on a small scale. Also sounds dangerously democratic. It must be curtailed at once. |
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Post by cibwr on Dec 23, 2014 10:50:04 GMT
Having taken part in a community poll this year I have to say that currently the system is broken, the polls were only open between 4 and 9 and the local authority refused to issue polling cards, making it very difficult to make people aware that the poll was happening.
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Post by David Ashforth on Jul 17, 2015 17:38:29 GMT
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 17, 2015 20:41:03 GMT
Excellent suggestion. There are far too many levels of administration. Three is quite enough. Ditch the rest. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jul 17, 2015 20:46:04 GMT
Excellent suggestion. There are far too many levels of administration. Three is quite enough. Ditch the rest. Barnsley is a met/unitary, so there's only two levels there. You seem to be advocating the re-introduction of a country council to increase the number of levels to three. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 17, 2015 20:54:24 GMT
Excellent suggestion. There are far too many levels of administration. Three is quite enough. Ditch the rest. Barnsley is a met/unitary, so there's only two levels there. You seem to be advocating the re-introduction of a country council to increase the number of levels to three. Wot! No MEP? Get rid of them and you can have another level. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jul 17, 2015 20:56:52 GMT
Barnsley is a met/unitary, so there's only two levels there. You seem to be advocating the re-introduction of a country council to increase the number of levels to three. Wot! No MEP? Get rid of them and you can have another level. I (like most of the population) keep forgettig about Europe. Arguably, it's not a layer of administration. What public services does the EU provide? They don't empty my bins or run the local library or resurface the roads. They're a standards coordinator and funding collector and distributor. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 17, 2015 21:03:38 GMT
Wot! No MEP? Get rid of them and you can have another level. I (like most of the population) keep forgettig about Europe. Arguably, it's not a layer of administration. What public services does the EU provide? They don't empty my bins or run the local library or resurface the roads. They're a standards coordinator and funding collector and distributor. I treasure your post J G. It is a layer of Admin and it hoovers up massive amounts of our dosh and interferes in just about every factor of our lives. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jul 21, 2015 8:52:24 GMT
I (like most of the population) keep forgettig about Europe. Arguably, it's not a layer of administration. What public services does the EU provide? They don't empty my bins or run the local library or resurface the roads. They're a standards coordinator and funding collector and distributor. I treasure your post J G. It is a layer of Admin and it hoovers up massive amounts of our dosh and interferes in just about every factor of our lives. You don't understand what administration is, do you? There's a good case for simpler governance arrangements. You are not making it. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 21, 2015 12:59:18 GMT
I treasure your post J G. It is a layer of Admin and it hoovers up massive amounts of our dosh and interferes in just about every factor of our lives. You don't understand what administration is, do you? There's a good case for simpler governance arrangements. You are not making it. I agree with that position. I was being facetious and frivolous because I thought the origins of this thread deserved it. You are correct that I am not making a case for 'simpler' arrangements because that was not my intention, but it would have been a better use of my time and it is worth the doing. Point accepted. I have desisted. |
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Post by David Ashforth on Jul 30, 2015 18:00:40 GMT
"Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council has now backed the plan [to abolish Brierley Town Council] and said it would work with town councillors to set out a timetable to axe the authority. It hopes to make a final decision in September." www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-33717883 |
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Post by neilm on Aug 1, 2015 11:46:32 GMT
Very sad.
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Post by cibwr on Aug 1, 2015 12:32:52 GMT
I would ban the abolition of Parish/Community councils and would want them extended to cover the whole population.
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 1, 2015 13:32:51 GMT
I would ban the abolition of Parish/Community councils and would want them extended to cover the whole population. Even if people don't want them? |
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Post by neilm on Aug 1, 2015 14:55:45 GMT
People quite often don't want any council full stop. I'm with cibwr on this. That's an unusual pairing! |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Aug 1, 2015 18:04:09 GMT
About ten years ago the chap running the South Yorkshire Standards Agency was discovered to have syphoned off loads of money leaving the SYSA more or less bankrupt. Sheffield Council ran the SYSA on behalf of the four councils, leaving "the Sheffield taxpayers" with a big hole in their finances. Therefore, Sheffield Council should be abolished.....?
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 1, 2015 20:43:49 GMT
I would ban the abolition of Parish/Community councils and would want them extended to cover the whole population. What form would you suggest for Inner London? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 1, 2015 20:46:33 GMT
I would ban the abolition of Parish/Community councils and would want them extended to cover the whole population. What form would you suggest for Inner London? The Queen's Park Community Council shows that there isn't anything wrong with the existing form in an inner London area. |
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