Please move to our town, Mayor Davies
Peter Davies, the new mayor of Doncaster, England has been making news. And for all the right reasons.
Here’s how the Telegraph UK reports it:
In his first week in office he cut his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000, which is putting one’s money where one’s mouth is. He also scrapped the mayoral limousine. He is ending Doncaster’s twinning with five towns around the world, an arrangement which he describes as “just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense”. He intends now to reduce (that’s right, reduce) council tax by 3 per cent this year.
The “diversity” portfolio has been abolished from the council’s cabinet. From next year no more funding will be given to the town’s “Gay Pride” event, on the grounds that people do not need to parade their sexuality, whatever it may be, at taxpayers’ expense. Black History Month, International Women’s Day and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month are similarly destined to become history.
Council funding of translation services for immigrants has been scrapped because he believes incomers should take the trouble to learn English. Officials have been ordered to abandon bureaucratic gobbledegook language. Davies is saving the taxpayers £80,000 by disaffiliating from the pointless Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit. He aims to abolish all non-jobs on the council, as epitomised by “community cohesion officers”. He is taking advice from the Taxpayers’ Alliance and the Campaign Against Political Correctness.
…He disregards all “green claptrap”, is creating more parking spaces to encourage traffic in the town for the benefit of business (”I’m not green and I’m not conned by global warming”). He has asked the Electoral Commission to reduce the number of Doncaster’s councillors from 63 to 21 (”If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?”).
IHateTheMedia.com is headquartered in a county that has a $60,000 per year “fat consultant” on the payroll.
If Mayor Davies were in charge, we have a feeling he would cut the fat. And the fat consultant.
Source: Telegraph UK via Tim Blair
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He’s smart and has common sense…two factors which would disqualify him from public service in the U.S.
this man is full of win
Great find, I’m printing this out and sending it to my mayor and city council. I’m also going to spread it around at the next neighborhood watch meeting, as well as post links in the Soundoff section of the county newspaper’s web site.
Please let us know the reactions you receive.
Just when you’re about to give up on the whole bunch, someone like Mayor Davies restores faith. There are reasonable, clear thinking people out there and they are still willing to jump into the political cesspool and do the right thing! And congrats to the city of Doncaster for electing a real person who does what he says.
I wouldn’t call it “diversity” he’s against. It’s more like the special-interest whining contingent. If we had someone like that running things here, there wouldn’t be all this media bias, the green/animal activist/food-cop agenda getting forced down our throats, no one would be treated like criminals for owning a pet of their choice, there would be no vile pet bans, food taxes, proposed bills to ban and tax anything that might bring a little enjoyment w/o being perverted etc. Food-cops want to make everybody eat soy and carrots and stay away with what they stupidly call “junkfood” animal activists want to ban anything that isn’t a dog or cat as a pet, the more extreme want to ban even these. Environmentalists are hollering that the sky is falling and everything that has or will happen is all the fault of humans. These groups hate their own species and want to quash anyone from being themselves and thriving – unless they’re gay, then these groups say you should be loved and understood and never disagreed with just for being gay. Please…