Their rationale was, get this, “people don’t know who their councillors are”
Like holy shit nobody ever knows who their local MLCs or senators are, but are we scrapping hare clarke? No.
It’s a sleazy tactic to increase the impact of major parties.
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Their rationale was, get this, “people don’t know who their councillors are”
Like holy shit nobody ever knows who their local MLCs or senators are, but are we scrapping hare clarke? No.
It’s a sleazy tactic to increase the impact of major parties.
it means that one ticket of councillors can have 51% support but 100% of all seats on the council
Or more problematically, it can have 26% support and 100% of control over the council. Since you only need 51% of seats to effectively get 100% of control.
Geez that's scummy. So transparently self-serving.
It honestly doesn't matter which party. You'll be bent over one barrel or another. They're professional conmen, shaping the laws to help their game.
Until we build actual grassroots power, we'll remain screwed.