“Liverpool needs a strengthened local democracy with empowered communities holding leaders to account” Tom Crone
Green Party Candidate for Mayor of Liverpool
Democracy: The Green Party believes in community empowerment and that power should rest with the people. We will strengthen local democracy and transparency in Liverpool by:
- Getting rid of the culture of ‘Punch and Judy’ politics and working collaboratively in a cross-party cabinet. I will appointment one Deputy Mayor from the Green Party and another Deputy Mayor from one of the other parties represented on the council.
- Scrapping the current ‘Mayoral Announcements’ at the start of each council meeting and replacing them with ‘Mayoral Questions’, allowing councilors and the public to put questions to the Mayor.
- Promoting a culture of openness and transparency across all of the council’s activity.
- Ensuring that all contracts that the council signs are publically available for scrutiny. We will also take legal advice as to which existing contracts and reports can be published in the public domain.
- We will also launch a Merseyside fossil fuel divestment programme. We will assess whether or not the council holds any investments in the fossil fuel sector, or other polluting industries, and withdraw from any such investments. I will also encourage other companies and public bodies across Merseyside to do the same.
