A Mayor 4 Blackpool
Blackpool is sinking into the sands of despair!
We’re sick of reading about pointless projects that create no more than a legacy for aging councillors with prehistoric ideas. We’re sick of being promised a return to the old, out of date seaside town.
We want all the mod cons that are being driven through the hearts of other seaside towns. We want modern facilities, a simple road network and a structured programme of infrastructure improvements. We want a streamlined town hall with a figurehead that can guide the town out of the 1960′s time warp that it seems rooted in.
We’re sick of the basics being ignored at the cost of gimmicky projects; you may see a sound bite or an artists impression here and a photocall there, but never do we see any real improvements to the town contributing towards a grand scheme that set out to achieve a goal for the town. Ideas are ill-thought and self interested, with councils intent on deceiving the public at every turn.
Our political parties have one thing in common, and that is that they are more interested in forming cliques than improving the town in practical ways that will benefit locals.
But who can be hauled over the coals for the town’s stagnation? Peter Callow? Simon Blackburn? Ivan Taylor? Steve Weaver?
This is the problem. Nobody is accountable so they all come out smelling of roses.
It’s time for Blackpool to embrace a new era of democracy in electing a mayor with real power and responsibility. Someone that we can hire and fire. To get the wheels in motion a web site has been set up with a petition that you should sign and encourage your family and friends to do the same. Empowering a local, forward thinking and involved person to be the mayor and guide the town is the only way we will drag this old lady out of the cess pit of crime, drugs and sleaze that it currently lies in.
Don’t be apathetic!
Join the Facebook group to show your support, then download the petition, complete it with as many friends and relatives as possible and send it off to the address on it. Only 5600 signatures are needed to force a referendum on this issue.
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I think the time is right to look into this subject, no one has taken it seriously before. Once people know what the why’s and wherefores are and how it can be done, plus names up for consideration which is more to the point the ball will roll a lot quicker.
Its not been taken seriously because the powers that be; don’t want it.”Simple”
You only need to look at the current process of selecting a Mayor to realise it is a freebie for the boys and girls who have served as Councillors over the years. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad you were; it ‘s just a back slapping process.
I believe the time has come to find ways of making people accountable to the electorate and the tax paying public.
A mayor should have no party mandate or allegiance to the council; they should be as independent as is possible and swear an oath to be community minded and to seek truth and honesty across the corridors of power, Unfortunately Blackpool appears to attract and breed leaders and council members who are ego centric, driven by petty party politics or totally clueless about the privileged position they hold. Lets get a an elected Mayor ASP!. or at least form a Blackpool Party.
A Blackpool Party would be fruitless; do you really think the armada of Labour voters would switch from the party that they only vote for because their fathers’ fathers’ mother’s great-grandfather was a miner?
As I see it, if such a party came about, it would only dilute Labour’s opposition and make it far easier for them to grab power.
A better idea would be to find a capable, electable mayor, then secure sufficient petitions to trigger a referendum on it. That way the mayoral candidate could campaign free from party politics and therefore not be tainted by any affiliations or stereotypes.
Wow, this is not about a council or party, this is about any individual that the people of Blackpool consider an individual who has the concept of Blackpools interests at heart. So basically, we are NOT looking for a councillor, we are looking for an individual who will with the foresight see where this town needs to go to PROGRESS in the future, without bias.
start now – -set up a group to collect the signatures and publicise the system –i’ll do my bit.