tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269067397168966943.post2829204194200283370..comments2023-05-21T13:27:52.157+01:00Comments on Not The Barnet Times: Court shock for Lynne HillanDon't Call Me Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602899129846028170noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269067397168966943.post-65326675903196175452009-10-15T13:52:44.607+01:002009-10-15T13:52:44.607+01:00Dean
Sadly there is nothing unlawful in the leade...Dean<br /><br />Sadly there is nothing unlawful in the leader being anointed rather than elected. The only solution is to have a directly elected Mayor although, thanks to Cllr Melvin Cohen’s Constitutional Review Committee, Barnet Council has just given away even more of its power to unelected officers, so frankly there is little point in even bothering to elect councillors any more.Don't Call Me Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602899129846028170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269067397168966943.post-9039281693420185422009-10-15T10:30:43.876+01:002009-10-15T10:30:43.876+01:00if we live and work in a democratic local governme...if we live and work in a democratic local government and indeed a democratic country, how can anyone become leader, without any election taken place? the people supposedly elected this bunch to lead them, so why can't they elect their own leader, it is for the public afterall. isn't it??<br /><br />we have seen what has happened on the back, and front, benches with labour since the take over of gordon brown, and surely this will end in the same way. a complete lack of support from her own party, is it really all worth it?<br /><br />is it legally allowed?? are we allowed to have someone representing us who has not been elected leader? this is like robert mugabe, failed to be elected but is still the leader.<br /><br />or, as we have done with zimbabwe will we have to grin and bare it with the cheating, snide, tories?<br /><br />are we a (to coin a phrase) "TRANSPARENT" council, isn't this what we are striving towards, as the great leader himself has said?Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160838361381307992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269067397168966943.post-1174169489571242412009-10-14T20:37:04.133+01:002009-10-14T20:37:04.133+01:00My sources tell me that she is already, in effect,...My sources tell me that she is already, in effect, Leader. Mike has stepped right back allowing her to fill the gap. She meets with Nick Walkley weekly and he has been told to call her first by Cllr Freer, so the rumour goes.<br /><br />No one in the Conservative Group has the <i>cohones</i> to take her on. They have seen what happened to Brian Salinger and Chris Harris: who wants to throw away their cushy Cabinet job for that punishment.<br /><br />I've got a bet on, at good odds, that she'll become Leader and br forced to resign under the cloud of scandal before the end of the year. That would be a disaster for the Conservative Party but it seems all but unavoidable.<br /><br />The only one who could stop her is Brian Coleman but, he, alas is scared of her too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com