My #ResidentsFirst campaign calls for a Citizens Assembly to be set up with no delay, before Conservative-run councils take your power away.
Please sign the petition below to ensure a Citizens Assembly is set up to make the final decision.
The campaign aims for residents (rather than multi-national consultancy firms) to have the final say.
Warwick and Stratford districts councils and their colleagues across the county are set to steamroller through plans to scrap existing district-level decision-making and create two super-councils – one for North Warwickshire and another for the South.
They are proposing that the number of councillors would be cut significantly.
I am demanding that a Citizens Assembly should have the final say on whether to pursue the plans – in honour of truly democratic values.
There are various people staging power grabs and it’s important that the public is heard and allowed to determine its own future.
The district and borough councils of Warwickshire spent more than £100,000 on a report by consultancy firm Deloitte about the future of regional governance. Of course, they received the advice they had paid for.
Likewise Warwickshire County Council spent £50,000 on its own report from consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) – and it also received the answer it paid for.
It is the residents that are the only consultants who really matter.
Please sign the petition below.
