Warrington Labour’s ‘time limit on democracy’

TUSC councillor and Warrington South parliamentary candidate Kevin Bennett has expressed disgust at the Labour Party council voting to “put a time limit on democracy”.

Kevin said: “The Labour Party in Warrington South has now put a time limit on democracy, which is apparently 30 minutes. As an elected member, it is my duty to challenge poor decisions by the council.”

“Yet when I formally moved that we should extend the time allowed for questions at the meeting to 60 minutes, the leader just stared at the ceiling and the Labour Group voted me down. This makes a mockery of the pledge by Labour that they are ‘open and transparent’.”

22 questions were put to the meeting, nine of them from Kevin Bennett. But there was only time for seven to be asked: six from the ruling Labour administration and one from Kevin.

Kevin said: “Instead of getting answers to serious topics about vital services, we got half an hour of Labour patting their own backs and promoting their vanity projects. This is nothing more than a form of ‘gagging’ by Warrington Borough Council.”


  • Don’t miss the TUSC election broadcast on 17 April on BBC2 at 5.55pm, ITV at 6.25pm, BBC1 at 6.55pm, and Channel 4 at 7.55pm
  • See the BBC’s report of the TUSC manifesto launch at bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32254035

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is an electoral alliance involving the RMT transport union, the Socialist Party, other socialist groups and leading members of other trade unions. This May TUSC is standing 135 candidates in the general election and 619 in the local elections.