Talk:Cabinet-style council

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What existed in UK before ? For me this article could apply to any democratic form of local governement.

Hi, Eric,

It isn't so much what existed before, as many councils are still ordinary councils without cabinet or are only just starting to go into this type of local government.

The point really is that in a council of the traditional type, all councillors of all parties and persuasions would meet in chambers, etc., and would go through precedures in the normal democratic way - sometimes a slow process.

In a cabinet-style governing body mainly the local party in power would be represented in the cabinet and form the policies of the day with the democratic checks and balances being gone through by the various committees consisting of all parties, to whom all decisions have to be passed for scrutiny and agreement.

Cabinet style was first very much criticised as being less democratic than the original type of council but criticism seems to have abated at this time, at least, in the Croydon example.

The replies were mine, sorry got logged out somehow.