Local elections are mostly about local concerns but that does not mean they should only be about small thinking
are mostly about local concerns, which is understandable. But that doesn’t mean they should only be about small thinking. Here are my five big ideas candidates running in local elections across our country’s villages, towns, and cities should consider, and change the areas they’re running in for the better.Keeping regional public spending within the local economy bolsters local prosperity, economic activity, and employment.
In 2013, it was identified that of £750 million spent by six bodies on goods and services, £38 million was going to entities based in Preston, and £292 million was being spent in wider Lancashire. The council prioritised addressing a 61 per cent leak of public money to suppliers outside the area . These six “anchor institutions” were persuaded by the council to spend more of their procurement budgets locally.
Local representatives need to quit the tired, clichéd rhetoric, and think instead about how they can bring people together instead of tearing them apart. If you don’t understand what increases happiness, decreases discord, and strengthens bonds within communities, then you have no business representing your community.Long after you and I are gone, there will be a Green Party politician somewhere faintly bleating “live over the shop”. Make it happen.
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