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âThere is no corner of UK Greens canât win,â says party co-leader
By Ellie Pipe, Monday May 10, 2021
Some of Bristolâs newly elected Green councillors were jumping for joy â literally â moments before they were officially sworn in on Monday.
Party members and supporters were flying high after a so-called âGreen surgeâ saw them gain a number of seats in the local elections to become the joint biggest group in City Hall, holding 24 seats on an equal pegging with Labour.
Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley quickly hot-footed it down to Bristol to join the celebrations â or at least a carefully socially distanced gathering of just some of the newly elected representatives and a couple of returning councillors.
Meet the Bristol mayor candidate: Robert Clarke
By Ellie Pipe, Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
There’s a throaty rumble of a Harley Davidson engine as Robert Clarke pulls up outside Blind Owl coffee shop on Feeder Road.
The location is important to the Reform mayoral candidate, who wants to highlight Bristol’s industrial heritage, which he believes is under threat from development.
As he waits for coffees across the road, overlooking the Feeder Canal, an anti-lockdown sign catches his eye. Clarke didn’t put it there, but he is 100 per cent behind the message and is running in the mayoral elections on May 6 on a platform of campaigning for Bristol to be the first city to proclaim “there will be no more lockdowns under any circumstances”.
Mayor Marvin Rees, business owners and Suzanne Audrey of Bristol Walking Alliance – photo by Ellie Pipe (2)
But, after resigning as a Labour councillor and cabinet member for housing in 2020, Paul Smith indicated “there is a real problem at the moment” and suggested, “we need to look at how those backbench councillors and opposition councillors can have more of a say”.
What is the point in having 70 elected councillors, he asked, if almost all decisions are made by an elected Mayor and a small number of councillors in the cabinet?
Despondency about the role of backbench and opposition councillors was evident in a recent speech at full council by Labour backbencher, Mike Davies: “There has been such a disparity between my hopes before I got elected and the reality of being a councillor under the mayoral system – it’s been a demoralising experience, and I know that’s true not just for me but for many others.”
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