Bradford says 'no' to elected mayor

6:40am Friday 4th May 2012 in News

Bradford says 'no' to elected mayor Bradford says 'no' to elected mayor

Voters have rejected the idea of having an elected mayor in yesterday's referendum.

The result was announced at 6.30am showing that 53.2 per cent of voters said 'no', while 43.3 per cent said 'yes'.

Actual figures were 66,283 against, 53,949 in favour, and 4,314 ballot papers rejected. The turnout was 37 per cent.

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Albion. says...
6:48am Fri 4 May 12

Sense prevails at last.

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Joedavid says...
6:50am Fri 4 May 12

A shame.

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vbfg says...
7:06am Fri 4 May 12

A massive vote of confidence in the system that handed the city centre to private developers.

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webess says...
7:08am Fri 4 May 12

More significant than council seat results as those results are temporary. We could have been stuck with a rogue mayor for years.

Sigh of relief here...

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flogem says...
7:09am Fri 4 May 12

Bradford will regret this no vote.Voters could have waited to see who would have put their names forward and then decided to vote or not.Bradford will not move forward with the present polictical system we have.

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angry bradfordian says...
7:33am Fri 4 May 12

flogem wrote:
Bradford will regret this no vote.Voters could have waited to see who would have put their names forward and then decided to vote or not.Bradford will not move forward with the present polictical system we have.
If we'd waited to see the candidates the money would already have been wasted.
What are the chances that the candidates would have been anything other than the usual candidates with their noses in the publicly funded trough.

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Saltaire Bantam says...
7:59am Fri 4 May 12

How come 4400 votes were rejected. I hope there was nothing dodgy going on?

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Mike Strutter says...
8:12am Fri 4 May 12

webess wrote:
More significant than council seat results as those results are temporary. We could have been stuck with a rogue mayor for years. Sigh of relief here...
...........but yet you are stuck with Reeves & Barra Mac (both unelected)

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webess says...
8:35am Fri 4 May 12

Saltaire Bantam wrote:
How come 4400 votes were rejected. I hope there was nothing dodgy going on?
Wouldn't have changed the outcome even if all were yes votes.
Just shows over 4000 of our fellow Bradfordians don't know how to put an X on a piece of paper..

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Avro says...
8:48am Fri 4 May 12

With yet another mess of a council about to continue, an elected Mayor might have been the better route.

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Shipleyvegas says...
9:20am Fri 4 May 12

An elected mayor would have been an expensive extra level of bureaucracy- good decision Bradford.

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Joedavid says...
9:58am Fri 4 May 12

The only good thing out of this is Ian Greenwood can't be elected mayor now.

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Yorkshire Lass says...
10:22am Fri 4 May 12

Think Bradford has made a big mistake by not voting for the Mayoral system. After all you would have been given the chance to vote for a candidate in November as to who "leads" Bradford. Now Ian Greenwood has gone, a new leader for the council will be voted in by themselves behind closed doors. Not a good system has history has already shown.

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mad matt says...
10:35am Fri 4 May 12

At last, a sensible decision - we can't afford an elected mayor!

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birkybull says...
10:50am Fri 4 May 12

I voted No because last thing i would want to see is George Galloway as mayor which would happen with the asain youth yote & support.

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Lizzydripping says...
11:53am Fri 4 May 12

webess wrote:
More significant than council seat results as those results are temporary. We could have been stuck with a rogue mayor for years.

Sigh of relief here...
How so when the post would have been up for re-election in 4 years time?

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Prisoner Cell Block A says...
12:03pm Fri 4 May 12

If there was even an inkling that the mayor would have been chosen from a pool of well-meaning, respectable local business men then it would have been a good idea worth following through, as is more likely you would have had the self-serving snout in trough types being put up like Greenwood, oh dear now departed, and Galloway, who will be riding away on his white charger over the next few years anyway.

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Lizzydripping says...
12:09pm Fri 4 May 12

Mike Strutter wrote:
webess wrote:
More significant than council seat results as those results are temporary. We could have been stuck with a rogue mayor for years. Sigh of relief here...
...........but yet you are stuck with Reeves & Barra Mac (both unelected)
Time for these people and their terms of employment to be put under scrutiny. Are they, unlike any other employee, allowed to continue in their posts without performance appraisal and proven achievement of objectives? As public posts, are we as citizens allowed access to their job descriptions and, perhaps more importantly, how their performance is monitored and rated and, in particular, by whom? The thought that certain people can continue in incompetent employment while the city dies depresses me more than words can say.

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justjustice says...
12:27pm Fri 4 May 12

The way things have been going one would have though all Bradfordians would have been begging for a change.

The one thing we can take away from this is that apparently the majority of the people are happy the way the council run things and enjoy the view of a crater in the middle of the city...

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locky1667 says...
12:46pm Fri 4 May 12

Lizzydripping wrote:
webess wrote: More significant than council seat results as those results are temporary. We could have been stuck with a rogue mayor for years. Sigh of relief here...
How so when the post would have been up for re-election in 4 years time?
4 years is YEARS

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Albion. says...
12:51pm Fri 4 May 12

justjustice wrote:
The way things have been going one would have though all Bradfordians would have been begging for a change.

The one thing we can take away from this is that apparently the majority of the people are happy the way the council run things and enjoy the view of a crater in the middle of the city...
Maybe they just don't see an elected mayor as the answer.

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Willard says...
1:01pm Fri 4 May 12

I am old enough to recall the damage doen to Bradford over the last 40 years with Labour lead, Tory Lead and Hung council. We have swung from one self serving lot with their political issues to the other with opposing. Party politics has causes the argument over the garden fence whilst in the backgound the flowers rotted and the pests and disease took hold. I think we need a council that is not politically focussed but Bradford focussed. Trade unionists and Free masons, all the same.

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Prisoner Cell Block A says...
2:52pm Fri 4 May 12

angry bradfordian wrote:
flogem wrote:
Bradford will regret this no vote.Voters could have waited to see who would have put their names forward and then decided to vote or not.Bradford will not move forward with the present polictical system we have.
If we'd waited to see the candidates the money would already have been wasted.
What are the chances that the candidates would have been anything other than the usual candidates with their noses in the publicly funded trough.
Greenwood and Galloway already expressed an interest in doing it. Thank the lord god McCall we voted no as a city.

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webess says...
4:16pm Fri 4 May 12

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
angry bradfordian wrote:
flogem wrote:
Bradford will regret this no vote.Voters could have waited to see who would have put their names forward and then decided to vote or not.Bradford will not move forward with the present polictical system we have.
If we'd waited to see the candidates the money would already have been wasted.
What are the chances that the candidates would have been anything other than the usual candidates with their noses in the publicly funded trough.
Greenwood and Galloway already expressed an interest in doing it. Thank the lord god McCall we voted no as a city.
It was fear of someone of Galloway's ilk that probably swung it to a no vote. Ironic as Galloway was wanting us to vote yes!

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Yorkshire Lass says...
4:24pm Fri 4 May 12

locky1667 wrote:
Lizzydripping wrote:
webess wrote: More significant than council seat results as those results are temporary. We could have been stuck with a rogue mayor for years. Sigh of relief here...
How so when the post would have been up for re-election in 4 years time?
4 years is YEARS
It will take longer than that to sort out the mess which is called Bradford.

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eccythump says...
5:38pm Fri 4 May 12

flogem wrote:
Bradford will regret this no vote.Voters could have waited to see who would have put their names forward and then decided to vote or not.Bradford will not move forward with the present polictical system we have.
Yes and certain elements in Bradford, could have put forward a candidate, amassed thousands of postal vote from god (or perhaps Allah) knows where and we could have been well shafted for years to come.

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mrs walker says...
2:46am Tue 8 May 12

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
If there was even an inkling that the mayor would have been chosen from a pool of well-meaning, respectable local business men then it would have been a good idea worth following through, as is more likely you would have had the self-serving snout in trough types being put up like Greenwood, oh dear now departed, and Galloway, who will be riding away on his white charger over the next few years anyway.
Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
If there was even an inkling that the mayor would have been chosen from a pool of well-meaning, respectable local business men then it would have been a good idea worth following through


..well-meaning, respectable local business MEN?

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