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No slant please
1:02pm Monday 26th July 2010
YOU’D never guess which way the Conservative Cabinet of Wyre Forest District Council want you to vote in the “Mayor or Strong Leader” referendum, would you?
I don’t hold with the ‘Kingmaker’ principle which gives such power to the likes of Red Ken or Bonkers Boris and I would really like a change to a “strong council leader” in Wyre Forest.
Most of all, however, I do not want to see deliberate bias in the way the electoral campaign is run. The phrase “Mayor or Strong Leader” is slanted.
If they’d wanted it the other way, would they have put “Elected Mayor or Unelected Council Leader”? Either way, it's wrong and anti-democratic and the council has a duty to be impartial.
NEVILLE FARMER Parliamentary Spokesman, Wyre Forest Liberal Democrats
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FlipC - The Mad Ranter, Stourport says...
11:34am Wed 28 Jul 10
Now apparently the Government refers/referred to the "Strong Leader" model and indeed "strong leadership" appears in the White Paper "Strong and Prosperous Communities", but as far as I can see the term itself appears in no legislation.
So to an extent you're both right, just not quite for the reasons given.
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Fran, Kidderminster says...
10:49pm Mon 26 Jul 10
The phrases "Elected Mayor" and "Strong Leader" come from the legislation NOT from the Council