David Johnson ; Each Week David Johnson, Account Director at Shepherd Pr, Takes a Look at the Staffordshire and Cheshire Business Scene

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G IVEN Stoke-on-Trent's recent political history, it's interesting to sense the excitement in other cities about the prospect of introducing the elected mayoral system. There was excitement here as well, both before and immediately after the electorate voted for the system in 2002, but the honeymoon period was verging on the non-existent.

Six years later the same electorate decided it had got it wrong and reversed the decision in a second referendum. There were a number of reasons - some of them unique to Stoke-on-Trent - why our elected mayors, Mike Wolfe, pictured, and Mark Meredith, failed to win the public over or deliver promises made on the doorstep.

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David Johnson ; Each Week David Johnson, Account Director at Shepherd Pr, Takes a Look at the Staffordshire and Cheshire Business Scene

With hindsight, it was probably a mistake to plump for the elected mayor with unelected council manager system. Councillors felt they were being bypassed and that...

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