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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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.
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
Lets have #VotesForWorkers in all councils and break the resident supremacy!
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
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.
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
@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.
@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.
@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?
@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)...
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)?
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…
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?
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…
@VotesForWorkers @rorymeakin @lonrec @CityWestminster @TfL You mean like the business vote in the City of London?
@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
@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?
@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…
@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)
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