Comment by © Muhammad Haque

You [politics.co.uk]

say

[quoting you]:

"A mayor should be informing and cajoling local councils in order that we all get the best services and the best value for money that we can." [Unquote]

This is a most empty statement.

What planet are you from?

What “service” do you link to what London Council?

Have you looked for and actually examined the evidence of the actual “work” elected councillors in London actually do?

Have you seen their “claims for expenses” statements?

Have you examined those. Their veracity, their empirical plausibility ?

Have you compared those with their published and the actual time spent at “surgeries” for residents of their council wards?

If you HAD done all of these things you could not make the empty statement that you have made.

One of the main reasons why there is & has been the one-sided promotion of the slogan for elected executive mayors in this country is the fact that elected councillors have become part of a career that is in the main “elected corruption”.

Elected councillors are not fit for purpose! They are not doing the job. This void must be filled.

It cannot be filled by adding the dire damage of directly elected egos and wasters of space, resource and the [just about] residual legitimacy in democratic representatives that still attaches to elected local councils. There is a deep deficit that is destroying the democratic fabric of Society. Time to stop this rot by getting councils to behave democratically. ethically, morally and accountably.

Executive mayors are directly destructive of democracy. They are meat t be so and they cannot be otherwise.

By definition, by logic and by sheer human propensity [as is seen whenever a human is given autocratic powers over other humans and the scarcely concealed propensity is pushed backwards to a primitive stage].

Can you demonstrate credible evidence to counter this very brief statement of the finding?

1610 Hrs

London

Monday

23 April

2012