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Aug 17 2009, 06:40 PM
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A maverick mayor elected after promising to slash council spending, clear the streets of yobs and ditch politically correct services is the torchbearer for how towns should be run.
On his first morning as Mayor of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, Peter Davies cut his salary from £73,000 to £30,000 then closed the council’s newspaper for "peddling politics on the rates". Now three weeks into his job, Mr Davies is pressing ahead with plans he hopes will see the number of town councillors cut from 63 to just 21, saving taxpayer s £800,000. Mr Davies said: "If 100 senators can run the United States of America, I can’t see how 63 councillors are needed to run Doncaster".
He has withdrawn Doncaster from the Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit, saving another £200,000. Mr Davies said, "They are just talking shops". "Doncaster is in for some serious untwinning. We are twinned with probably nine other cities around the world and they are just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense".
The mayor’s chauffeur-driven car has also been axed by Mr Davies and the driver given another job. Mr Davies, born and bred in Doncaster, swept to power in the May election with 24,244 votes as a candidate for the English Democrats, a party that wants tight immigration curbs, an English Parliament and a law forcing every public building to fly the flag of St. George.
He has promised to end council funding for Doncaster’s International Women’s Day, Black History Month and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month. He said, "Politicians have got completely out of touch with what people want. "We need to cut costs. I want to pass on some savings I make in reduced taxes and use the rest for things we really need, like improved children’s services". Mr Davies has received messages from well wishers across the country and abroad as news of his no-nonsense approach spreads.
If this is true, and some of it definetly is including his pay cut i think the man should be given a chance by his voters to get into parliament.
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Aug 18 2009, 05:12 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Aug 18 2009, 05:36 PM) The banning an event, despite not looking into how much money it may make the town is priceless, pun intended. Must have missed that bit, what event did he want to ban?
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Aug 18 2009, 05:19 PM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Aug 18 2009, 06:12 PM) Must have missed that bit, what event did he want to ban? Doncaster Gay Pride, which attracts (according the the interviewer) 8,000 people to the town.
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Aug 18 2009, 05:34 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Aug 18 2009, 06:19 PM) Doncaster Gay Pride, which attracts (according the the interviewer) 8,000 people to the town. He isn't necessarily going to ban gay pride marches; he just said that he was going to withdraw council funding from it.
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Aug 18 2009, 09:11 PM
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QUOTE (Branston Pickle @ Aug 18 2009, 06:34 PM) He isn't necessarily going to ban gay pride marches; he just said that he was going to withdraw council funding from it. You're right, technically he's not banning it, just removing the council's interest from any community events like this.
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Aug 18 2009, 10:21 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Aug 18 2009, 10:11 PM) You're right, technically he's not banning it, just removing the council's interest from any community events like this. I wouldn't consider a gay pride march a community event.
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Aug 19 2009, 12:13 PM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Aug 18 2009, 11:21 PM) I wouldn't consider a gay pride march a community event. Why is not a community event? If you're going to say "not all of the community are gay" then the Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest community event in Europe, would not be one by your reckoning as not all of the community of Notting Hill are originally from the Caribbean.
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Aug 19 2009, 02:03 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Aug 19 2009, 01:13 PM) Why is not a community event?
If you're going to say "not all of the community are gay" then the Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest community event in Europe, would not be one by your reckoning as not all of the community of Notting Hill are originally from the Caribbean. I've got to agree with User on this one. It is a community event.
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