Local Authority Councillors must reply to Constituents Communications by Law in 10 Downing Street petition

Completely fed up with Local Government Councillors who consistently do not reply to my communications, in desperation, I have set up a petition on the 10 Downing Street site to try to get something done about this ridiculous state of affairs.

Please support the petition and help make elected representatives more accountable to reasonable debate.

The petition I submitted requests the Prime Minister to:

Require elected paid Local Government Councillors to reply to reasonable communications from constituents

The supporting narrative is as follows:

Elected local Councillors frequently do not reply to reasonable communications from their constituents regarding questions of Local Government policy.

A system of Official Public Local Government Forums must be set up to enable Local Authority constituents to publicly question Local Government Councillor’s about their policies and in which the Councillors will be legally required to make a written and reasoned reply.

A parallel system of email addresses must be set up for communications of a private nature to which there will also be a legal requirement for the Local Government Councillors to reply.

By opening questions of Local Government policy to forensic local public discussion, the quality of decisions made by Local Government Councillors on behalf of their constituents will be improved.

The individual quality of Local Government Councillors will be better audited by constituents enabling better voting decisions to be made during Local Elections.

Anger and frustration constituents feel when they spend time researching issues and composing carefully written communications to which they do not receive any reply will be eliminated.

It’s not just me that’s fed up with the ruling Tories in my Local Government Authority. Recently, the Chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce complained in a letter to the local newspaper that he hadn’t received replies to round robin policy questions he’d put to ruling party Conservative Councillors.

The exception he said was one Councillor who wrote to say that they weren’t allowed to reply to his question because they were on a committee that made it against the rules for them to reply to his questions.

Please sign this petition. It is the single best way to make paid Local Government Councillors throughout the UK to be accountable for the policies they support.

Bye for now

Rob