Parish council election washout.
Posted by thewhitbyindependent on April 7, 2011
May 5th’s parish council elections are hardly worth dignifying with the name since few wards throughout the area could muster enough candidates to have an opposed election.
According to the Scarborough Borough Council news site:
At the moment, of the 39 parish councils in the borough, only seats in Eastfield (both the Eastway and Westway Ward), Folkton, the Hinderwell ward of Hinderwell Parish Council, Whitby Town Council’s Abbey Ward and Wykeham are being contested.
As anyone who has observed Whitby Town Council (an offense under the trades descritions act: it is a parish council) in ‘action’ it is clear that it has no power and is no more than a talking shop.
Until something is at stake, and Whitby Town Council has has the power to make genuine decisions that affect the health and wellbeing of the twon, people will not take the institution (which has done itself no favours in recent years) seriously.
Elections to Scarbrough Borough Council’s 50 wards have garnered 50 candidates.
