Today the English Democrats are delighted to announce that our nationwide campaign for directly elected Council Leaders (aka Mayors) for every local authority in England has borne its first fruit.

Despite an increasingly desperate and dishonest campaign by the Salford Council Labour Party, Salford is the first local authority where we collected the required 5% of the electors' signatures (c. over 8,500) to trigger a referendum to give the voters of Salford the chance to change their Council's leadership, from the old back-scratching and buggins' system, to one of democratic election by all the voters. The result was, out of 31,091 votes cast, 17,344 were in favour of an elected Mayor and 13,653 were against. Therefore in May there will be an election for Salford's first directly elected Council Leader.

Stephen Morris, our North West Chairman and Salford Mayoral Campaign Organiser said:- "This result, where the turnout was quite similar to the usual turnout in Council elections, showed that even Salford Labour Party's usual supporters have turned against it! I am now looking forward to bringing Mayoral Referendums to Bolton and Wigan as soon as possible."

Robin Tilbrook, the Chairman of the English Democrats said:- "This is a fantastic day for local democracy in England and shows that the way is open to achieving a better and more transparent leadership in local authorities across England. We would like to get everyone more actively involved in local politics and we believe we will succeed in doing so, if they can see that the old one party local political machines are being replaced by Mayoral elections which give the electorate a real choice!"

Robin continued:- "Even David only needed a little stone to bring Goliath crashing down! Now our Party will redouble our efforts in collecting signatures to trigger further referenda the length and breadth of England".

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Stephen Morris must make sure the people of Salford know what Peter Davies has achieved in Doncaster and why they should vote for another English Democrat mayor. And when the people of Salford are happy with what they get the people of Manchester will hear about it and then the people of Bolton and hopefully word will then spread throughout the whole North West.

anonymous , January 27, 2012

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