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Letter: I Watched The Council Meeting With Utter Incredulity
From John Ferns Last night I watched the full Guildford Borough Council meeting with utter incredulity. Item 8 was, “A review of the allocation of seats on committees 2018-19”, a…
Letter: Now Is the Time To Alter The System
From Gordon Bridger hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford In response to: Opinion: Unnatural Selection Martin Giles is right. Residents are ill-served by a system of councillor selection which…
Letter: Compared With Other Areas, Our Retail Sector Is Doing Well
From Caroline Reeves leader of the opposition at Guildford Borough Council and Lib Dem ward councillor for Friary & St Nicolas In response to: It Is True – The Number of…
Letter: The Real Problem Is First Past The Post
From John Perkins In response to: Opinion: Unnatural Selection The problem with our democracy, as I see it, is not so much party politics as the First Past The Post…
Letter: A Plague On All Your Political Parties
Liz Critchfield I say to our local politicians, “A plague on all your houses!” Bawling political slogans at each other gets us precisely nowhere. No one political party has a…
Letter: Independent Councillors Cannot Change Government Policy
From Richard Mithen In response to: Party Politics Has No Relevance in Local Government As much as I would, of course, admire a well respected independent councillor that works for their…
Letter: Expulsion of Conservative Councillors is Disgraceful
From Gordon Bridger hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford The recent expulsion of two well established Conservative councillors, Tony Rooth and Bob McShee, because they voted against the extraordinary…
Letter: Party Politics Has No Relevance in Local Government
From Keith Childs hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford I was proud to represent Tillingbourne Ward on Guildford Borough Council between 1991 and 2007. I was elected four times…
Letter: Guildford Should Follow Stamford’s Independent Example
From Fiona Curtis In Stamford in Lincolnshire, thirteen out of twenty-one councillors are Independent. I hope that Cllr McShee considers this option. It is indeed a very sorry state of…
Letter: Why, Oh Why Couldn’t GBC Follow the Planning Guidelines?
From Ben Paton In response to: Local Politicians React to News of a Judicial Review for Waverley’s Local Plan Most people in the borough would support Brian Creese’s words: “…it…
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