County Council wrong to take people’s say away

Councillor Michael Mullaney leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition said the Conservative authorities request to cancel May’s elections was wrong. “People have a right to go and vote in May’s elections. Cancelling them is just a way for the County Council’s Conservative leadership to try and rush through their plans to see Boroughs and Districts abolished. It’s also about avoiding an election where the Conservatives were likely to lose a lot of seats and possibly the control of Leicestershire County Council.

“To create a huge super authority, containing most of Leicestershire and possibly Rutland too would see decision making taken further away from people’s lives. These plans are not about devolving power to local communities they are about centralising power and making it more remote from people.

“Leicestershire Lib Dems totally oppose these plans”.