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Hammersmith and Fulham Liberal DemocratsCampaigning for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham |
New Coalition Government to act on H&F News
May 27, 2010 9:45 AM
The Liberal Democrats have obtained commitments in the new Coalition Agreement with the Conservatives which should help curb the local single-party Conservative-run Council from abusing its powers here in Hammersmith and Fulham. In particular:
- stopping unfair competition by local authority newspapers, such as H&F News
- new powers to help communities save local facilities and services threatened with closure
- restrictions on the use of surveillance powers by councils
- removing restrictions on social housing tenants
- giving local residents the power to instigate local referendums where their councillors fail to represent their interests.
Unfortunately, the local single-party Tory administration will continue to exercise distorted powers - including to set their own remuneration and allowances - until the unfair winner-takes-all voting system is changed, and they stop winning artificial majorities in the Council. The Liberal Democrats introduced a fair voting system called Single Transferable Vote for Scottish local elections when we were in coalition with Labour there, and this has delivered genuine community-based local democracy. However, the Conservatives are blocking voting reform in English local government, because the existing system gives them far more than their fair share of councillors.
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