It’s not an option to return to the committee system says Southend Council leader Nigel Holdcroft.
It’s not an option until he and his cabinet know details of the proposal and can then make a sensible and rational decision to refute it and carry on with the fantasy of the fantastic progress under the cabinet system! Why doesn’t he give all 51 councillors the choice of committee or cabinet system?
The cabinet system has clearly failed in many towns, so the new coalition is giving councils the choice to return to the committee system. They are removing quangos and offering more democratic government for local councils, but cabinet dictators will put up a fight.
Len Lierens
Southchurch Road
Southend
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