What is an Independent Party?
This week we have the visionaries of new politics speaking in Newcastle to urge people to believe there is or can be a smooth transition between the ultra right and left to show that independent thinkers can be shifted in both directions in search of common ground.
The most unlikely trio of speakers have got together to promote Independent councillors and independent group formation.
The one time darling of Northumberland Conservatives Georgina Hill, Lincolnshire’s top national Independent councillor Marrianne Overton leader of the independents on the LGA and the most well known cell manager of the group Momentum, who reached the dizzy heights of Mayor for the North of Tyne when hiding in plain sight under the Labour Party banner.
The split of politics among this group is so extreme that historical reminders of former political parties instantly enter the heads of many.
Between them they are seeking people to stand in the local government elections for Counties on May 1 2025.
How does the unification of ‘Independent’ councillors benefit people?
Its difficult to know how, as unlike other political parties (outside of very divisive Tory groups) whose structured rules are designed to ensure a little fairness in the spread of service delivery and capital spend we have noticed when independents come together in political groups its the will of the strongest and loudest which comes to the fore, as can be seen being acted out via reform extremists as the May elections loom ever closer.
With many lost people worried about the anti-women and racist leaning policies of reform and how that would drag policy making at a local government level into the mire, those who think about politics are also concerned about the expansion of independent’s which may pan out in a similar manner.
With two of the speakers from areas which have experience of unitary all purpose council management and one a speaker in her own patch of anti-unitary sentiment the difference in thinking is enormous.
It's yet to be seen if the area where independent Councillors currently make the most difference at Town and Parish council level can be harnessed towards any sort of gelling togetherness?. Are voters visionary enough to see if the fame alone of those local independent councillors can deliver enough of them into the powerful huge spend areas of strategic Councils whether Unitary or two tier County?. With the question of if their own in mind politics will have the ability to harmonise, work together and deliver in areas where regular party politics are set in place or will localism as with disparate Tory groups become the norm and huge swathes of council areas be left in the wilderness?
Sometimes it's very good to have independent thinkers as Councillors especially in those areas of scrutiny where questions need greater expansion and investigation than normal but working together as a group of independents may turn localism into maelstromism and the noise of the rabble would drown the needs of ordinary people.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/jamie-driscoll-jeremy-corbyn-election-17417505
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