[OccupySheffield] Questions being asked of Sheffield Council

[Robert Daines]

Thanks Andy
Unless there is a total reform of how we elect our representatives this
will not change. I have many ideas about this but at base is that we must
vote for people not parties. All citizens should be sent the voting records
of all councillors and MP's and their tax returns and allowance claims. In
these days of  blue labour and red tory the parties have become
institutions who put up placemen to occupy seats that should be `occupied'
by our representatives. What is the sense of voting for ideas and
ideologies.

Robert Daines

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Andy Cropper (personal email) <
artbyandyc at aol.com> wrote:

> from Nigel
> Over the past few weeks I've been asking questions of my local
> councillors. So far I've found out the following.
>
> We need to keep reminding the said councillors that 2 out of 3 people
> didn't vote at all and 4 out of 5 people didn't vote for the people who got
> elected.
>
> This council thinks we should be grateful that Stagecoach, a company with
> a turnover of £2.4Bn and profits of £191M, received £6.4M in Government
> funding to buy itself new buses to make even more profits.
>
> The council has 537 contracts with 700 private companies to provide
> 'public' services. These contracts are worth £730M or 49% of the council's
> budget and some of them have guaranteed profits. ie. Capita (council tax
> collectors) 10% and Veolia (bins etc) 11%.
>
> The new contract for improving the city's highways is worth £2Bn or £800M
> per year. That's £42,000 per kilometre of road per year.
>
> More to follow
>
> (that's 4 out of 5 people in total didn't vote for the leaders currently
> in Sheffield council, the council has a mandate that's been agreed on by
> only 1/5 th of the population of Sheffield)
>
>
> Andy Cropper
> Painter/Artist
> 12 Parkfield Place
> Highfield
> Sheffield
> UK
> S2 4TH
>
> personal email : artbyandyc at aol.com
> business email: andy at artbyandyonline.com
> t:   + (0) 114 255 2037
> w:  www.artbyandyonline.com
> Fb: www.facebook.com/artbyandyonline
>
> _______________________________________________
> OccupySheffield mailing list
> OccupySheffield at email-lists.org
> https://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/occupysheffield
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/occupysheffield/attachments/20120718/68f75e81/attachment.html>