Who Gives A Stuff What The People Think?

[poliphilo]

Two years ago (I was there, I participated) the people of Manchester decided by referendum that they didn't want an elected mayor.
Now a gang consisting of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and local council chiefs has declared that they're going to get one anyway.

The contempt for democracy is breathtaking. 

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

This is a unitary authority.

75% of those who voted in the ballot on this voted against the idea.

So they went ahead and forced it on us anyway.

This they call democracy................

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And they wonder why we don't like or trust them...

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Good grief. So referendums are all meaningless then?

The Scots should count themselves lucky they gave the Tories the result they wanted.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, they sem to be.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

This is in total defiance of normal democratic practice, which is to hold the referendum over and over again until the people give the right answer.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. That's the way to do it.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Those who bleat most loudly about "political correctness" are the ones who embody and deploy it. They were handed the wrong answer.