Aldersgate Election of Helen Fentimen An Utter Farce

It bears repeating that every election in the City of London is an utter farce, since the electorate is so small the entire process could very easily be rigged. Yesterday (13 November 2019) Helen Fentimen won an Aldersgate election to the common council for Labour – the only party standing, the rest were ‘independents’ – with a miniscule 260 votes. Given both business votes and that top ‘elected’ posts at the council are disproportionately bagged by members of the men-only Guildhall Lodge 3116, the undersized electorate isn’t the only reason democratic reform is urgently required in this rotten borough.

William Russell & Livery Companies

As we’ve detailed already, the election of William Russell as lord mayor of London is an affront to democracy since the vote was decided in advance of unelected livery company members raising their hands to give him the job. As we’ve also previously mentioned, Russell is the fifth member of his family to be lord mayor of London in just over a century, indicating the kind of nepotism at work in the City of London’s anti-democratic set-up. What we haven’t addressed before – and the day before Russell is officially installed as lord mayor seems a good time to bring it up – is that he actually sits on the City of London Livery Committee that organised his own election!

City Of London Residents Get A Choice Between Halloween Trick or Toxic Treat

Steve Bolton of Legal & General Investment Management who’ve just lent the city £125m describes the Culture Mile and related projects as ‘regeneration’ but we’ve heard that one before – what this really means is the marginalisation and social exclusion of anyone who isn’t rich. Here we reproduce Bolton’s Halloween trick or toxic treat message as reported in one branch of the corporate media.

More Fibs About Tax & The City of London

Anyone who looks at how the City of London operates will see that it financialises productive sectors of society so that it can suck wealth and life out of the world. Rather than giving anything to society, the City of London just takes and then uses some of the wealth it siphons off to lobby for neo-liberal under-regulated economic policies, so that it might further funnel the world’s resources away from those who need them for the benefit of a super-rich elite who already have way too much. If the City of London were to cease operations today, the UK economy and the world would be hugely improved. In an effort to obscure this fact the City keeps telling porky pies to make it look like it pays more tax than it does, then getting those it is in bed with to repeat these fibs.

‘Election’ of William Russell As Lord Mayor of London Totally Rigged

Explaining how the Lord Mayor is elected, Livery Committee chair Nigel Pullman said there are three candidates voted for by by about 1,000 (unelected) liverymen. “It’s a strange system. Everyone knows before the vote who is going to win,” said Mr Pullman. “The winner’s name is read out first, and he is voted for by a show of hands. Then when the second candidate’s name is read, everyone shouts out ‘next time’. And when the third candidate’s name is read, they shout ‘later’.”

City of London Residents Battle Their Council To Save The Barbican

A City resident obtained, through a freedom of information request, the following information about Michael Snyder, a supporter of the proposed expansion of the City of London School for Girls. I thought you might want to have it by way of background. He became a City councillor in 1986. He has been a member of the Policy and Resources Committee for 22 years. He joined it in 1997, and was Chair from 2005 -2007 and Deputy Chair in 2008. He has been on the Board of Governors of the CLSG for 29 years, from 1989 to 2013 and from 2014 to the present. He was Chair from 2014 -2016 and Deputy Chair in 1990. I have checked with the Town Clerk’s department on whether there is maximum period for which a member can sit on either of these bodies. The answer is no. In fact, there is no maximum length of service on any City committee or board except the Audit and Risk Management Committee and the Standards Committee, which have a regulatory function, and the Barbican Centre Board and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which are “high status” appointments that many members covet.

William Russell Is The 5th Member Of The Bowater Family To Be Lord Mayor In Just Over 100 Years

It will have surprised no one that William Russell has been ‘elected’ Lord Mayor of London since the entire City of London electoral system is rigged. Russell’s rise to the top of the City of London council demonstrates how roles within this local authority are stitched up through a combination of a ridiculously small electorate, the undemocratic business vote system and an old boy network.