Unitary Council Elections
At last the government has got something right on this whole unitary debacle. We know they got it wrong when they believed the County Council’s claim that local people wanted just one “super-county” council for the whole of County Durham, but give them some credit - they spotted something fishy in the way the County Council was trying to change its proposal after the event.
As a result we will have elections in May 2008 to elect new councillors to shape the direction of the all new, all singing, all dancing council! These councillors will then continue as members for the first four years of the new council, meaning that they will be elected for five years in total.
Whichever side you were on, for unitary or against it, we should all be pleased that the setting up of the new council will not be left in the hands of its original architects. We need a breath of fresh air to blow through County Hall.
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