Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics
Part two of a series of articles on the Conservative green paper on local government, which are also appearing on the Democratic Society blog.
Section one of the green paper discusses local housing and economic growth. The Conservatives’ proposals are:
enable local authorities to benefit financially when they deliver the housing that local people need;
give local authorities [...]
I’d like to write a series of posts here in defence of the political Party system. I’m conscious that this is not an elegant or fashionable position to take, and it’s certainly not one of those lines that you can defend in the 140 character Twitter template.
I’d go further: It takes a series of blog-posts [...]
In a welcome bit of political prodding (it always usually comes form civil servants or NGOs) Conservative Home is urging Tory councillors to use Twitter. You can see a detailed list of twittering councillors on Cllr Tweeps.
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? Picture Credits.
