The countdown begins: 50 days until Bristol elects a mayor
In 50 days Bristolians will be taking part in an historical vote for the city's first elected mayor. Here The Post editor Mike Norton launches a campaign to create a people's manifesto - and find out your views on what the mayor's priorities should be.
OUR great city is just 50 days away from one of the most significant political changes in its 850-year history.
On November 15, we will vote for Bristol's first elected mayor and change forever its political landscape.
And today, The Post begins the countdown.
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Because we want as many Bristolians as possible to vote and to have a say in this momentous change.
Not just to help choose our first elected mayor. But to voice the issues that should become the new leader's priorities.
We want to pop the vainglorious political echo chamber and let some new opinions in.
We start today by asking 50 people in Bristol what the mayor's priorities should be. And, over the next seven weeks, our reporters will be in every council ward asking the same question.
We've also teamed up with an apolitical organisation called The Bristol Manifesto.
Together, we'll be collecting Bristolians' wishes to create a people's manifesto as well as holding mayoral debates in every compass point of the city's suburbs.
We won't be backing any of the 13 candidates. We will be challenging and scrutinising them.
Bristol is a wonderful city. But it's also disparate and disconnected. And many of its people feel disenfranchised by its stagnated political system.
We hope that someone can emerge from this process who will be the great mayor that this great city deserves, who can re-ignite and reunite the city by restoring its faith in leadership.
A champion for Bristol. Someone who thumps tables in Whitehall. Someone who can celebrate this city's defiance without allowing it to stunt its growth. Someone every Bristolian can feel is working for them and who can create success from which every Bristolian will benefit.
So let's get started. The next 50 days are vitally important to the future of our city.
The Bristol Manifesto - have your say
Using technology, you can tell the mayor directly what you want to see in our city - and make sure he or she listens.
It's a powerful way we can all work together to create the city we want to see.
The Bristol Manifesto is a volunteer, apolitical organisation that has been set up to make this happen. Backed by the Post, it wants to gather the wishes of all of Bristol - 350,000 people - put them together in a unique manifesto, and give them to the mayoral candidates.
It will be the first time anywhere in the world that this has been done.
How do you join in? Simple. You don't have to be a voter or give your name. Just go to www.bristolmanifesto.org and click on the Three Wishes for Bristol button.
Comments
by SlotBoy
Wednesday, October 10 2012, 9:26PM
“Site up now.
Enter Rifix Design into Google.
Rich Fisher - Independent”
by corruptbstard
Friday, September 28 2012, 6:28PM
“If the general public were fully aware of the realities of our monetary system, and the policy options that presented, we could all have a much more grown up debate about which course we should take.
Read it and weep loner, read it and weep ;-)
http://tinyurl.com/97nkrjs”
by SlotBoy
Friday, September 28 2012, 5:35PM
“LoneRanger and Artglad.
I am sorry that FaceBook is my main portal for information about myself. I don't have time to post a website /Blog at the moment and maintain it constantly. Facebook was an obvious solution. I am making the best of the tools available to me at present and FB links in to real people (Mostly) so is pretty damn honest. Anyone can say what they like about you / post pictures etc. You can enter 'Rifix Design' into Google and see some of the other stuff I do. Band site is down at present but Mephisto's Island are on ReverbNation. So moving on to the question of campaign budgets the site link below should answer your question.
Link to Electoral Commission site (Hopefully becomes a tiny URL)
http://tinyurl.com/c4yl56k
It refuses to open the Part 3: Spending and donations for me typically enough, but you may have more luck. But clearly anyone representing a political party working within the Council, as well as entrepreneurs, are going to have access to much larger budgets for promotion and campaigning etc. compared to Independents.
Third party sponsorship would be more forthcoming as well although they are set strict limits. The wheels of power. For those on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/bu69hws
To those not I will endeavour to tackle Dreamweaver ... and get another site up.”
by Lone_Ranger
Friday, September 28 2012, 1:29PM
“1 - I've acknowedged nothing of the sort.
2 - You've yet to answer where this £4,830,000,000 every year would come from or what services the council would cull to provide this free money.
Second thoughts, you are obviously nothing but a timewaster so don't bother attempting to explain your madcap policy and leave the politics to the grownups.”
by corruptbstard
Friday, September 28 2012, 1:09PM
“Well at least you acknowledgment that central government could implement it. So we do have some common ground loner ;-)
Business pays people wages to work. People spend their wages in businesses. Businesses make money/profit
I pay people to do what they love. They spend money in businesses doing stuff people love. Business makes money/profit.
Next question ;-)”
by Lone_Ranger
Friday, September 28 2012, 11:44AM
“"How do we fund it?
1.Meeting peoples basic needs, will bring about a happier, healthier, creative and dynamic society, with less crime and the resulting reduction in Government spending.
--Central Government sending may be reduced slightly but that won't fund any of the £4,830,000,000 you'd require for your hair-brained scheme.
2.The current budget for Quantitative Easing (printing money from thin air), Welfare and Pensions is more than enough to fund a £15,000 Unconditional Basic Income for
everyone.
--Again, central Governemtn, not local.
3.If the UK economy can fund an average wage of £26,000 a year, that same econo
my can fund an Unconditional Basic Income of £15,000 a year for everyone.
(£26,000 is an average wage mind. The Basic Wage of an MP is £65,000 and that's before all those flipped second homes and MP's expenses)
--BUSINESS can fund much of the £26,000 average wage by paying their employees to be profitable. You are proposing paying people for producing exactly nothing.
who distributes it?
Inadvertently the coalition is about to introduce the means to do it, with their universal credit ;-)"
-- repeat: Central Government.
You fail to provide any cogent answers to how your idea would be funded, who would pay to distribute and and who would fund the remaining services the Council would still have to provide.
You are a joke candidate.”
by corruptbstard
Thursday, September 27 2012, 5:57PM
“How do we fund it?
1.Meeting peoples basic needs, will bring about a happier, healthier, creative and dynamic society, with less crime and the resulting reduction in Government spending.
2.The current budget for Quantitative Easing (printing money from thin air), Welfare and Pensions is more than enough to fund a £15,000 Unconditional Basic Income for
everyone.
3.If the UK economy can fund an average wage of £26,000 a year, that same econo
my can fund an Unconditional Basic Income of £15,000 a year for everyone.
(£26,000 is an average wage mind. The Basic Wage of an MP is £65,000 and that's before all those flipped second homes and MP's expenses)
Most importantly, there are enough resources to meet everyone's basic needs. If the current economic system can't cope with that, then that system is useless.
These are unprecidented times. We have to start doing things differently. We need to throw the rule book out of the window.
It's time to stop flogging a dead horse and get a different animal.
who distributes it?
Inadvertently the coalition is about to introduce the means to do it, with their universal credit ;-)”
by matic_113
Thursday, September 27 2012, 2:49PM
“@ artglad & @ corruptbstard
The debt is mainly held in pension Funds and Annuities. Other than that oversea investors and financial institutions. I assure you defaulting on the debts while we have a deficit would be unthinkable.”
by Lone_Ranger
Thursday, September 27 2012, 2:10PM
“"by corruptbstard
Friday, August 24 2012, 11:10PM
.
"Corrupt Bstard - Official Electoral Address (which will be sent to all 322,000 Brisolian Residents, in the official Mayoral Electoral Address brochure, sent out by Bristol City Council)
I will pay every adult resident of Bristol an Unconditional Basic Income of £15,000 every year, index linked to inflation."
£15,000 x 322,000 = £4,830,000,000 (Four thousand eighthundred and thrirty million pounds). Each year, every year ([plus inflation index/people flocking to Bristol for free money).
How much taxation do you expect people to have to pay to generate this amount?
Who collects it?
Who distrbutes it?
Who pays for the collection and distribution costs?
Who pays for the other services provided by the Coucil?”
by corruptbstard
Thursday, September 27 2012, 1:56PM
“Artglad. If only more people would start asking questions like that ;-)”