Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

Local councils are systematically biased against nightlife and building new homes & workplaces. Time to give votes to local workers as well as residents. UK Joined January 2018

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

4 years ago

@sohoshrock "all councils"

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Leo Gibbons @Layo_FH

4 years ago

It’s doesn’t matter if it’s Tory or Labour, the issues with NIMBYism are structural. There is no direct electoral incentive to work for the millions of voters in your region, the only incentive is to appease a few thousand residents in your patch.

Paul Fisher @PaulEFishr

4 years ago

Maybe - just maybe - a more nuanced approach to reviving city centres *and* protecting residential amenity could work. That’s historically what London has been about. If you don’t like it, move! … to Magaluf @CharlotteCGill

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

4 years ago

Lets have #VotesForWorkers in all councils and break the resident supremacy!

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The Rest Is Tw*tter @rorymeakin

5 years ago

Sometimes a decision is just monumentally and obviously so stupid. @CityWestminster’s on al fresco Soho is one such decision. We need employees to have a vote in a council’s elections as well as residents so badly to balance out nimby crap @VotesForWorkers

Tom Harwood @tomhfh

5 years ago

Just walked through soho on this sunny Saturday & I have to say what a shame it is that the al fresco revolution has been quashed. Places that used to have bountiful street tables are now reduced to cramming in the world smallest furniture on a fraction of the pavement. Sad.

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The Rest Is Tw*tter @rorymeakin

5 years ago

It really is a disgrace that @CityWestminster gives residents a veto over this stuff. The business owners and staff should have a vote, too. Ideally customers as well, but hard to see how that could be done, practically @VotesForWorkers

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

7 years ago

@jillongovt @rorymeakin Imagine it’d work out as only one, much like how people with multiple homes can vote in multiple councils but only one vote if two homes in a single authority. But a good question.

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

7 years ago

@jillongovt @rorymeakin Suspect votes for workers would lead to better walking/cycling provision. The City seems to bear this out. Their electorate is dominated by workers with similar resident income and built environment to Westminster. But they’re more pro cycling and walking and less pro car.

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

7 years ago

@jillongovt @rorymeakin Perhaps if local workers were allowed to vote in Westminster council elections as well as residents then candidates might pay more attention to the concerns of those who don’t enjoy discounted residents’ parking permits?

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

@MagdaIbrahim @carfreedayLDN @cityoflondon @london_cycling @OpenStreetsLDN They might do if workers’ votes balanced out the interests of local residents in elections, as happens in the City but nowhere else (sadly)...

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

Why might it be that the @cityoflondon (where workers get votes) is so much better on this stuff than @CityWestminster (where only residents are enfranchised)?

Nicholas Cecil @nicholascecil

8 years ago

END OF TOXIC AIR IN THE CITY? Cars sets to be banned from half of roads in London's Square Mile standard.co.uk/news/transport…

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

Lots of talk of "workers on boards" from @jeremycorbyn's speech at #Lab18 - how about #VotesForWorkers in local elections? Why should only residents have a voice in local government?

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

@uncriticalsimon @rorymeakin @lonrec @CityWestminster @TfL Yes!

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

Reading this @lonrec account of the battle between @CityWestminster and @TfL over cycle superhighway 11, it’s hard not to wonder if it’d have been different if workers in Westminster could vote there, rather than just residents having 100% of the votes.. londonreconnections.com/2018/cs11-lond…

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Simon 🦖🚟🚉 @uncriticalsimon

8 years ago

@VotesForWorkers @rorymeakin @lonrec @CityWestminster @TfL You mean like the business vote in the City of London?

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

@kerryburkes @GeorgeMRyan @AndrewBoff Good questions. Perhaps only one "worker" vote per person? Perhaps a minimum of 16hrs to qualify? There will be unfairness and anomalies however the rules are designed, sadly. But a taxi driver having a vote where the taxi office is (say), is better than none at all

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

@kerryburkes @GeorgeMRyan @AndrewBoff But in the handful of places where workers do outnumber residents - suspect it's only Westminster (and the City which already has VFW), then workers' interests *should* count more heavily than residents' interests. Isn't that how democracy should work?

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

@kerryburkes @GeorgeMRyan @AndrewBoff In practice that would happen almost nowhere as very few authorities have more jobs than residents. Even Tower Hamlets has more residents than employees (308k vs 278k) - tho perhaps not after excluding minors. nomisweb.co.uk/reports/lmp/la…

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Votes for Workers @VotesForWorkers

8 years ago

@GeorgeMRyan @kerryburkes @AndrewBoff The 'region' thing was clearly unpopular, though - possibly different for London because people there tend to mainly identify themselves as "Londoners" rather than the local authority or area within it (except to other Londoners)