Totally fed up by Local Government Councillors who do not reply to my emails or letters, I have taken the plunge and set up a petition on the 10 Downing Street site. Please support this petition.
The petition submitted asks the Prime Minister to:
The supporting narrative is as follows:
Elected local Councillors frequently do not reply to reasonable communications from their constituents regarding questions of Local Government policy.
A system of Official Public Local Government Forums must be set up to enable Local Authority constituents to publicly question Local Government Councillor’s about their policies and in which the Councillors will be legally required to make a written and reasoned reply.
A parallel system of email addresses must be set up for communications of a private nature to which there will also be a legal requirement for the Local Government Councillors to reply.
By opening questions of Local Government policy to forensic local public discussion, the quality of decisions made by Local Government Councillors on behalf of their constituents will be improved.
The individual quality of Local Government Councillors will be better audited by constituents enabling better voting decisions to be made during Local Elections.
Anger and frustration constituents feel when they spend time researching issues and composing carefully written communications to which they do not receive any reply will be eliminated.
I am not the only frustrated constituent in my Local Government Authority. Even the Chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce complained to the local press that he hadn’t received any replies to policy questions he put to ruling Tory Councillors.
One exception he recorded was a Councillor who wrote back to say that they couldn’t reply because they were on a committee that made it against the rules for them to reply to these questions.
Please support this petition.
Bye for now
Rob
