"If U think the Elections are being cancelled for your benefit .... I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you!" 🤣
#PboroDemocracyFAIL #PeterboroughCC #PCCfinancialCrisis #Pottyborough #Pboro #UKlabour #Peterborough #CllrShabinaQayyum
Delaying elections for a year, means Labour leader of PCC gets another £35,994, the Deputy leader gets £21,596 and the Cabinet members get another £17,997 - on top of their normal £11,998 pa pay!
#PboroDemocracyFAIL #PeterboroughCC #Pottyborough #Peterborough #CllrShabinaQayyum
Along with #Cambridge City Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council will ALSO be holding 🗳️ #LocalElections this May⁉️
#PboroDemocracyFAIL #PeterboroughCC #Pottyborough #Pboro #UKlabour #Peterborough #CllrShabinaQayyum
"My objection to postponing elections was made as a ward councillor, reflecting residents’ views, not in my capacity as Chair of Children’s Services."
- #CllrKirstyKnight (Independent)
#PboroDemocracyFAIL #PeterboroughCC #Pottyborough #UKlabour #Peterborough
"I strongly feel that we do not have enough information on #Peterborough’s LGR plans to justify postponing something to sacrosanct as people’s democratic right to vote." - #CllrMarkOrmston (Independent)
#PboroDemocracyFAIL #PeterboroughCC #Pottyborough #UKlabour
"The political landscape has changed a great deal over the last year or so .... If there were elections, there would be a different picture and the public deserve to be able to vote for that."
- #CllrHeatherSkibsted (Green Party)
#PboroDemocracyFAIL #UKlabour #Peterborough
Labour run #Peterborough City Council decides to CANCEL #LocalElections!
* And YET #Cambridge City is GOING ahead with local elections!? PS Cambridge is LABOUR run!
#PboroDemocracyFAIL #PeterboroughCC #UKlabour #CllrShabinaQayyum
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