Elected Mayor Integral to Combined Authority

[steveL]

I think this one is going to develop into a major issue for the town with Osborne seeing elected Mayors as an integral part of Combined Authorities. The 'structure' that is evolving is one of an elected Mayor and Cabinet with the Cabinet being composed of the Leaders of the participating councils together with a selection of unelected Quangocrats.

Hartlepool has not long since rejected both having an elected Mayor and being part of Cleveland County.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32726171

http://tinyurl.com/kxczu6o

[crisstw]

Aye, but we're not allowed to vote on joining the combined authority so it doesn't really matter. Calamity Chris & Lying Toad Ste will be "our" representatives no doubt....

[pensionater]

These articles are talking about CITY's,as far as i am aware Hartlepool is a town.Nowt like a bit of scaremongering.

[steveL]

Idiot. Have you not heard of the Tees Valley City Region, the name being given to the proposed combined authority?

[fred c]

Is Calamity Chris a Director of Tees Valley Unlimited by any chance ?

[steveL]

Mallon makes his move

http://tinyurl.com/l6o88cv

[Land Phil]

The writing is on the wall for even more money to be rinsed out of Hartlepool whilst the Akers-Belchers-Cranny-Wells family milk it.

[The Great Dictator]

Mallon, another carpetbagger..

[testing times]

This story from the Mail seems to have been lifted directly from the Sunderland Echo if the comments are anything to go by. The Mail itself appears to be steering well clear of the subject despite Ray Mallon now openly pushing for a directly elected Mayor for a Teesside City Mayor. The Combined Authority is expected to be set up by the autumn and Osborne is insisting that an elected Mayor is a prerequisite of any devolved powers.

What I'm thinking is that any eventual referendum on an elected Mayor will be Teesside based rather than on a town by town referendum.

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/business/creating-a-northern-powerhouse-the-ideas-behind-george-osborne-s-plan-1-7260824 

[steveL]

The starting point for this conveyor belt is the establishment of a combined authority and we have already been denied a referendum on that despite CAB's statement when the future of our own elected Mayor was being debated that:

"It is only right and proper that the people of Hartlepool are given the opportunity to indicate how they wish to be governed."

Once the Combined Authority is set up, we will be carried along the conveyor belt unable to get off. Ironically, the model for an elected Mayoral system in Teesside will be a Mayor and Cabinet system, the system which CAB described as less democratic or accountable when he was green with envy and trying to usurp Drummond.

That said, the new Cabinet will consist of the five leaders of the councils, all of whom will receive a hefty 'special allowance' probably of around £25,000. This will be on top of any allowances already being paid as leaders of their own councils. Of course, it would be hypocritical for CAB to go along with such a set-up but he's never found hypocrisy to be a barrier to self-enrichment before.

[Inspector Knacker]

This story from the Mail seems to have been lifted directly from the Sunderland Echo if the comments are anything to go by. The Mail itself appears to be steering well clear of the subject despite Ray Mallon now openly pushing for a directly elected Mayor for a Teesside City Mayor. The Combined Authority is expected to be set up by the autumn and Osborne is insisting that an elected Mayor is a prerequisite of any devolved powers.

What I'm thinking is that any eventual referendum on an elected Mayor will be Teesside based rather than on a town by town referendum.

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/business/creating-a-northern-powerhouse-the-ideas-behind-george-osborne-s-plan-1-7260824

The Mail tends to steer clear of things like this, so those whose only access to events locally is to read the Mail tend to find out after the event.
As for the Teesside vote, this is how we went backwards under Cleveland, a minority vote on the edge of theTeesside conurbation....great if you're a politician with ambition and flooging the line of comical 'unity' but a regressive step for the local electorate

[Mr.E]

It could go like this!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/manchester-mayor-elected--despite-not-being-voted-in-by-the-public-10285935.html