Tory: London Mayor is ‘elective dictatorship’
A Conservative London Assembly Member has called the London Mayor post an “elective dictatorship”.
In a comment posted on ConservativeHome, he said:
Abolishing the London Assembly would be a good first step on the road to abolishing the elective dictatorship that is the Mayoralty.
Assembly members do actually work very hard in my experience (this was not my view before getting elected) but they are doing a job that could be performed by the Boroughs or a beefed up London Councils
( http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk ).
There will be a saving but it won’t be as much as £8m as some of our roles would have to be transferred to the Boroughs.
He was responding to a call by the website to abolish the London Assembly – right now the only body keeping a tab on the London Mayor.
Adam Bienkov at Tory Troll, who picked up the comment, said:
Boff has said openly what I’m sure other Tory Assembly Members would agree with privately, and it’s certainly a principled stance to propose giving yourself the sack.
But if the Mayoralty is such a bad idea for London, then why did he stand for it himself?
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“Increasing mayoral powers, however likely they are to generate more efficient solutions, must be accompanied by a stronger mechanism for monitoring and control of those powers. The Assembly has proved to be less than effective in calling the Mayor to account. Were this state of affairs to continue, the loss of local democratic links implied by many of the proposed changes (in the Government’s consultative paper and this response) would be highly undesirable. Great powers must go hand in hand with continuing and effective accountability.”
From: The Greater London Authority:
The Government’s proposals for additional powers and
responsibilities for the Mayor and Assembly (2006)
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSELondon/docs/GLAConsultation2006.doc
The truth of the matter is that the London Assembly has few powers to check the London Mayor or call him/her to account beyond throwing out a proposed budget or passing a no confidence motion. Effectively, most of the (well-paid) top jobs are at the disposal of the mayor.
“Deputy mayors and advisors within City Hall, plus the chairs and members of bodies such as Transport for London, are all the mayor’s creatures.”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23485290-ringing-the-changes-at-city-hall.do
Much of the rest of local government in Britain functions with far more internal checks and balances – except where there are elected executive mayors.
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