Post in Request: What issue would you like to hold a public discussion about?

Apr 29 07:52 UTC

I would like to see a discussion on the new method of local govt that has
been forced on Brighton & Hove, and how local councillors of NOT just the
governing body (albeit a minority administation at present) are suposed to
have an input into the decisions that the council is now going to make.

It seems that an administration elected by under 50% of the residents in this
city, will make unoposed decisions with no input from any other party.

I do not raise this as a party political issue but as a democratic issue.

Sue Paskins

From:           	Anthony Zacharzewski <<email obscured>>
To:             	"BH@forums Issues Forum" <bh@forums.e-
democracy.org>
Subject:        	[BH-Issues] Request: What issue would you like to
hold a public discussion about?
Date sent:      	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:27:27 +0100

I´m doing some work with an organisation called the Democratic
Society, which exists to support participation and democracy. We have
been given a little funding by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and are
going to use some of this money to stage a public discussion event in
Brighton and Hove in late spring/early summer.

I´d be really interested to hear from people on this list what sorts
of issues they would like to see discussed at such a meeting, and what
sort of format would appeal: a staged debate, a single speaker
followed by discussion, or something entirely different.

There are only a couple of rules. The Society is non-partisan so we
can´t stage debates or events that obviously promote a particular
political party. If we had Caroline Lucas, for instance, we´d need to
have balancing speakers. Second, we don´t have an enormous amount of
funding and we´d like to use it wisely so there´s enough for more
events later in the year.

Feel free to drop me a line off-list if you don't want to clutter up
the discussions here. You can check out the Democratic Society on our
website (http://www.demsoc.org).

Thanks

Anthony
Anthony Zacharzewski

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