Sadly Newham voted to retain it’s Mayoral system. a statement is posted to the campaign blog. repeated on twitter and I created a thread unroll for the tweet thread here.
10 more years, for Newham’s Mayoralty
Council Power
I wrote to one of Lewisham’s Councillors on the results of the Democracy Review and pointed them at things I have written and published, on Mayor’s and power in the council. https://davelevy.info/lewishams-democracy-it-could-be-better/ … what i thought was needed https://davelevy.info/what-is-to-be-done-with-lewisham-council/ …
Lewisham’s Democracy, it could be better
Writing up what I think for Lewisham’s Democracy Review is proving harder than I thought, the source material i.e. Lewisham’s Constitution [www] is very long(483 pages), it’s .pdf, can’t easily be indexed or highlighted, so item No. 1. is to increase
On Mayors, again
The March meeting of Lewisham Deptford’s General Committee passed the following motion about the Mayoralty. This CLP Notes: 1. That Lewisham is one of a small number of Local Authorities to have a directly elected Mayor. 2. From conception the
At the GC again
Reporting on the Lewisham Deptford General Committee is still not happening so here is a report from me, about what happened yesterday. We had a guest speaker on trans rights and then considered phase 1 of the democracy review, which
Trade Unionists speak
The local Trades Council asked those seeking to be Labour’s Candidate for Mayor to answer a short set of questions; they present the replies in this document, “Judge for yourselves who will be the Mayor we need!”. They asked questions
BackBell
The Labour Party’s Lewisham Mayor selections ballots have been issued, by post and email. Ballot papers for eligible Labour Party members in Lewisham to vote for who our candidate for Mayor will be will reach you over the next few days.
Paul Bell & Schools
Paul Bell, one of the people seeking to be Labour’s candidate for Lewisham Mayor has announced his education policy and promises. He promises, I will as Mayor oppose new academies and free schools, maintaining Council control of schools wherever possible
Dictatorship?
In reply to a Momentum tweet, which points at Paul Bell’s Labour Mayoral facebook page, and highlights his commitment to be the last Mayor of Lewisham. [ See also here…], Councillor Joe Dromey, a Lewisham Council cabinet member posts on
What should Lewisham Labour do next?
Some thoughts from New Cross Labour, Lewisham’s Labour Group have launched an internet consultation, at Lewisham Together , a wordpress site, http://lewishamtogether.wordpress.com/, anyone can contribute ideas to Labour’s Manifesto for Lewisham’s Mayor and Labour Group. The Labour Party has been