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There are four Golden Lane Estate related facebook accounts and you can follow them here: goldenlaneEC1
Posted on September 7, 2020 at 15:30 2 Comments 0 Likes
Below is the text of an email I sent today to all members of the Court of Common Council (the City Corporation’s elected governing body) about the proposed postponement of the elections of the City’s 100 councillors from March 2021 to March 2022.
What little democracy there is in the City shouldn’t be postponed by a year for no good reason. But I expect that the postponement of these elections will receive overwhelming support from members of the Court at its meeting on…
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Posted on May 11, 2020 at 14:56 0 Comments 0 Likes
Below is the text of an email that I sent today to all members of the Court of Common Council (the City Corporation’s elected governing body). It covers two subjects.
First, it satirises the lack of democracy in the City Corporation. As 80% of members of the Court of Common Council are elected mainly by tiny numbers of generally uninterested business voters - a system unique to the City - the Corporation cannot claim to be a democratic institution. For background, see…
ContinuePosted on April 27, 2020 at 16:12 2 Comments 6 Likes
QUESTIONS WITH NO ANSWERS
On Friday 24 April, in a live streamed virtual meeting of the City Corporation’s Community and Children’s Services Committee, the Chair was asked questions about the Corporation allowing non-essential construction work to restart on one of its own developments within touching distance of its own densely populated Golden Lane estate.
For the background, see:…
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