Jackie Weaver & Holding Abusive Local Councillors To Account

Join us in this Podcast we interview Jackie Weaver about her campaign to bring back civility to local government

Jackie Weaver famous for chairing the Parish meeting at Handforth Parish Council has agreed to do a webinar with us where we will look at her campaign to have Councillors removed from their position if they breach the Council Code of Conduct.

Jackie faced abuse when she chaired a meeting of Handforth Parish Council and then shot to national fame through the manner in which she dealt with it. It has made her start a campaign for civility in local government.

Here in Enfield we have seen the Leader in breach of the Council Code of Conduct on two occasions and Council meetings have descended into chaos with filibustering and heckling to prevent some Councillors making their voice heard. The Enfield Council chamber has become a bedlam rather than a deliberative chamber.

Other local authorities have also behaved in a way that is partisan, hectoring and that shows little respect to rational debate.

 

How can we change this and how across the UK can we get Councils to behave in a civil way is what we will explore with Jackie.