Please sign my petition...

My e-petition to Prevent Councillors from serving on several Councils has now been published and you can all sign it if you would like to. I hope that you will. Thanks anyway, just for reading about the problem...!

If the petition gets more than 100,000 signatures, there's a chance that it will be debated in Parliament.

If that happens, there's a chance that the law might be changed in a way that would strengthen and improve local democracy in England & Wales.

The objective is that it would no longer be possible for any one Councillor to serve on Hampshire County Council, Eastleigh Borough Council, Hedge End Town Council and Bursledon Parish Council, as happens at the moment.

I think that is a problem we urgently need to address, as it potentially allows all the bad and/or questionable ideas to be massaged through the various tiers of Local Government without proper discussion or debate, without scrutiny from a completely different set of people at each tier.

This is even more of a problem if the Councillor concerned also happens to have been elected as the leader of Eastleigh Borough Council, is leader of the local Lib Dems and thus has the power and influence that will force other local Councillors to be subserviant and meekly do as they are told, through fear of an early end to their political careers...

Its time to stop this from happening and thanks to the new system of e-petitions we've now got a realistic chance to do so. Here's your opportunity to make a big difference in the way that local politics works.

Do please sign the petition if you feel you are able to support the suggestion.

Even better, please share the link to this posting and the petition as widely as possible.

This is not just an issue for Eastleigh, it potentially affects Councils across the length and breadth of the country. Wherever you live, do please sign the petition if you agree...

Thanks for your help and support, and for reading this far...!