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36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
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BringOutTheCranston


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27-08-2014 08:46 AM

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In terms of a democratic mandate your average local councillor only represents the 1,500 or so locals who actually voted for them.

Talk of them representing the whole community of 25,000 odd is sophistry.

With only one non-Labour councillor in Lewisham, whatever the spin, I think we can all guess the polictial agenda for the next five years.


Rubbish!

The councillors are elected to represent their whole ward with 3 of them representing roughly 10-12,000 electors. The voting process (and whether you agree with the current system or not is a separate matter) is the way that the public chooses them. No matter who you vote for the person who wins the election is your councillor (why does the forum keep changing the spelling of this word).

It certainly isn't sophistry to claim that the councillor represents the ward that they were elected for.

As for Lewisham being all Labour - that's one of the flaws of the local election voting system where unless it's a close ward one party will take all three seats. It's not a system I particularly like and at local level I'd like to see a more PR based system to get a spread of views on the council.

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RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home) - BringOutTheCranston - 27-08-2014 08:46 AM
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