As many of you will know, the control of the District Council has changed hands from Liberal Democrat to Conservative. In my view the electorate do not elect a particular party to control the council, most people I suspect vote in their own wards for the candidate they feel they want. It is only an accumulation of seats that then allows one group or other to out vote the other group at the council that gives control. We weren’t elected to control the council and now neither were the Conservatives. But that might all change, of which more in a moment.
I congratulate them on their win and their Leader on his return to leading the council. That did mean for me personally that I am no longer sitting in the chair of the Neighbourhoods and Health Committee now renamed Community and Waste Management. Also we saw at the annual council the Development Control renamed yet again to be the Planning Committee, while regeneration an Organisation and Resources stay as they were and the two Scrutiny Committees go back in to one.
Also at the Annual Council there is the review of the constitution of West Lindsey, which can only be done at that meeting. There are no elections in West Lindsey in 2009 and so the next scheduled elections would be 2010 when one third of the council will be up for election.
