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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Abolish the Department of Communities and Local Government and allow local people to decide in consultation with the local representatives they elect to do the job how best to run their localities. More details
Submitted by Jock Coats of Oxfordshire Community Land Trusts – Deadline to sign up by: 20 January 2007 – Signatures: 24
More details from petition creator
Local government has been subject to far too much tinkering, target setting and control by central government for decades. If government is by the consent of the governed then surely that consent, for local affairs, is given in elections to local councillors. Instead of handing down a menu from on high of how local government will be permitted to operate, allow real innovation and local consultation to decide how to run and fund their local communities.
Current signatories
Jock Coats, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Joe Otten
- Edwood Walker
- Joe Taylor
- Tristan Mills
- Andrew Duffield
- Paul Elderton
- Edward Peter Charleton
- Stephanie Ouzman
- DKPreedy
- John Dixon
- David John Parker
- Stephen Tall
- Jacob Thorne
- Roger Styring
- David Butler
- Margaret Godden
- andrew johnson
- Mary Winter
- Peter Angus
- stuart hall
- hope
- hela lazhar
- Anthony G Connor
