IF we are to have local 'cabinet' government forced upon us, it would seem only fair that the cabinet be selected from the party that represents the most people of the electorate -- which may not necessarily be the party with the most candidates.
In the interests of democracy, each voter should be allowed a vote for the candidate of their choice and another for the party they wish to form the cabinet.
Alternatively, the votes of all the individual candidates for each party could be added up and the party with the most gets to form the cabinet.
If the present system of the party with the most candidates forming the cabinet is to be kept, then in fairness to the electorate the entire council should be dismissed and made to stand for re-election.
L LAWES, Bold Street, Blackburn.
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