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| Labour Robbing Democracy From Southampton People |
We think there should be a Referendum before any councils are changed. Do you? If you do, please sign Andrew Pope's petition. Andrew, who is a member of the Southampton Independent Network says:
"Do you want the forced Council Changes to be imposed on you from Westminster bureaucrats?
Did you know that starting next year, Keir Starmer's failing Labour Government will be forcing Southampton to join with the Waterside, Eastleigh, and Chilworth, Nursling and Rownhams to form a new "South West Hampshire" council.
All of the district and borough councils will be scrapped. In May 2027, it is planned to have elections to a council that does not even exist yet.
Your voice will be diluted. Your vote will be diluted. You will be forced to pay more taxes. The savings that are claimed will not eventuate, just like happened with a Tory Government in Somerset.
Some people on the Waterside object to this, under the "New Forest Together" banner. Some people in Eastleigh object to this. Some people in Chilworth, Nursling and Rownhams object to it too, under the "Test Valley Together" banner.
We at Southampton Independents want to hear what Southampton people think about it.
Did you know that you were apparently "consulted" about it? Most people did not.
Representatives of all the big political parties - councillors and MPs - have been contacted by us, repeatedly, going back for TEN YEARS, to ask them to support a Referendum before any councils are changed or elected mayors brought in.
Ten years ago, some of them supported a Referendum. Some of them helped our campaign then.
But more recently, they have let you down again. NONE OF THEM SUPPORT A REFERENDUM NOW. I've asked them time and again.
They have let the Labour Government bully them into submission.
You are being ruled by civil servants in London, and the Labour MPs and Ministers in the Labour Government have let them do it to you - Angela Rayner, Jim McMahon, Steve Reed and more - all weak, and two of them were failed Labour councillors.
Plus the local councillors from all of these big political parties have also failed to resist in any organised or effective way.
I tried to educate them. I tried to get them to stand up for you.
But they haven't.
So I ask you to sign my petition to show them that we, the people, should be asked and that we should not be let down by the big political parties not standing up to faceless bureaucrats in Westminster and Whitehall.
Independents stand up for what is right. We are not told what to do by political parties. Local people respect independents because of this. Join with us to show the political parties that they are wrong to ignore the people of Southampton."
