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. 

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[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...