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Status: completed · Language: en · Source: Office Audio · Captured: 2026-05-07 14:22:24 · Yeah, if one party has more than half the seats, they've got freedom to do a lot more stuff as well. And it was Labour a
Yeah, if one party has more than half the seats, they've got freedom to do a lot more stuff as well.
2026-05-07 14:22:24 - 2026-05-07 14:22:30And it was Labour a long time, then it was Liberal-Democrats, then Labour again.
2026-05-07 14:22:30 - 2026-05-07 14:22:34And the last two times, as I remember, it's no overall control in Parliament.
2026-05-07 14:22:34 - 2026-05-07 14:22:39Yeah, because 77 is Labour, then all those 8 to 5s in Sheffield.
2026-05-07 14:22:39 - 2026-05-07 14:22:44And it's almost certain there will be no overall winner for this one again.
2026-05-07 14:22:44 - 2026-05-07 14:22:49And the mayor will change after this?
2026-05-07 14:22:49 - 2026-05-07 14:22:54That's complicated. There is no exact mayor.
2026-05-07 14:22:54 - 2026-05-07 14:22:57There's a mayor of South Yorkshire, but we're not voting on that at the moment, I don't think.
2026-05-07 14:22:57 - 2026-05-07 14:23:02And he's sort of an executive mayor for the whole of South Yorkshire.
2026-05-07 14:23:02 - 2026-05-07 14:23:06Sheffield, Barnsley, Rudder and Doncaster.
2026-05-07 14:23:06 - 2026-05-07 14:23:09And for the city, the mayor is actually just a formal ceremony.
2026-05-07 14:23:09 - 2026-05-07 14:23:16So who's voting?
2026-05-07 14:23:16 - 2026-05-07 14:23:18Nobody exactly, because they have to do it as a council.
2026-05-07 14:23:18 - 2026-05-07 14:23:24I mean, that's what council literally means.
2026-05-07 14:23:24 - 2026-05-07 14:23:26They have to do it as a council.
2026-05-07 14:23:26 - 2026-05-07 14:23:29There is a leader of the council, and they have to pick one of the councillors to be the leader.
2026-05-07 14:23:29 - 2026-05-07 14:23:34But it doesn't have executive authority to say, OK, we're going to declare a war on Barnsley,
2026-05-07 14:23:34 - 2026-05-07 14:23:39or like a president, or we're going to change the speed limit, or anything like that.
2026-05-07 14:23:39 - 2026-05-07 14:23:43He doesn't have final decision.
2026-05-07 14:23:43 - 2026-05-07 14:23:45He's just sort of the chairman of the meeting.
2026-05-07 14:23:45 - 2026-05-07 14:23:47Yeah.
2026-05-07 14:23:47 - 2026-05-07 14:23:48What about the project and stuff?
2026-05-07 14:23:48 - 2026-05-07 14:23:50Or how they divide their budgets?
2026-05-07 14:23:50 - 2026-05-07 14:23:52So in councils, a lot of that stuff, they're employees.
2026-05-07 14:23:52 - 2026-05-07 14:23:55They have employees who have a chief.
2026-05-07 14:23:55 - 2026-05-07 14:23:59I don't know if Sheffield has, but in Newcastle they have a chief executive.
2026-05-07 14:23:59 - 2026-05-07 14:24:04And he's an employed guy who's like administrator of the council.
2026-05-07 14:24:04 - 2026-05-07 14:24:09More like the company.
2026-05-07 14:24:09 - 2026-05-07 14:24:11They employ a chief executive on a very high salary.
2026-05-07 14:24:11 - 2026-05-07 14:24:14And he makes the decisions.
2026-05-07 14:24:14 - 2026-05-07 14:24:16And the council is there to approve the budget.
2026-05-07 14:24:16 - 2026-05-07 14:24:17And the policy.
2026-05-07 14:24:17 - 2026-05-07 14:24:19But the day-to-day executive management is done by employees, not by politicians.
2026-05-07 14:24:19 - 2026-05-07 14:24:25Not like the government where you have a minister for whatever, for transport,
2026-05-07 14:24:25 - 2026-05-07 14:24:30and they make executive plans about decisions about transport in the country.
2026-05-07 14:24:30 - 2026-05-07 14:24:34And projects.
2026-05-07 14:24:34 - 2026-05-07 14:24:35The council do it a different way.
2026-05-07 14:24:35 - 2026-05-07 14:24:37But every council has a different way of working as well.
2026-05-07 14:24:37 - 2026-05-07 14:24:40It can be very different ways across the country.
2026-05-07 14:24:40 - 2026-05-07 14:24:43And they do have councillors with like a portfolio for transport.
2026-05-07 14:24:43 - 2026-05-07 14:24:46And one for schools.
2026-05-07 14:24:46 - 2026-05-07 14:24:48And one for parks.
2026-05-07 14:24:48 - 2026-05-07 14:24:49I mean, or a few of them.
2026-05-07 14:24:49 - 2026-05-07 14:24:50But it's more like a committee that would just sit and talk about it and review things
2026-05-07 14:24:50 - 2026-05-07 14:24:56and steer it.
2026-05-07 14:24:56 - 2026-05-07 14:24:57But they don't decide, you know, exact stuff like.
2026-05-07 14:24:57 - 2026-05-07 14:25:01I think they could, but as a group.
2026-05-07 14:25:01 - 2026-05-07 14:25:03Yeah.
2026-05-07 14:25:03 - 2026-05-07 14:25:04Improved by the council.
2026-05-07 14:25:04 - 2026-05-07 14:25:06Same as planning.
2026-05-07 14:25:06 - 2026-05-07 14:25:08Planning is done by the council.
2026-05-07 14:25:08 - 2026-05-07 14:25:10But the people who do it, the employees, they're not elected.
2026-05-07 14:25:10 - 2026-05-07 14:25:14No.
2026-05-07 14:25:14 - 2026-05-07 14:25:15They're not elected.
2026-05-07 14:25:15 - 2026-05-07 14:25:16They're not elected.
2026-05-07 14:25:16 - 2026-05-07 14:25:17They're not elected.
2026-05-07 14:25:17 - 2026-05-07 14:25:18So they can't do it.
2026-05-07 14:25:18 - 2026-05-07 14:25:19They can't do it.
2026-05-07 14:25:19 - 2026-05-07 14:25:20They can't do it.
2026-05-07 14:25:20 - 2026-05-07 14:25:21They can't do it.
2026-05-07 14:25:21 - 2026-05-07 14:25:22I mean, it's not like they can't do it.
2026-05-07 14:25:22 - 2026-05-07 14:25:23They can't do it.
2026-05-07 14:25:23 - 2026-05-07 14:25:24You can go to the council to decide.
2026-05-07 14:25:24 - 2026-05-07 14:25:25Yeah.
2026-05-07 14:25:25 - 2026-05-07 14:25:26But it means the whole council hears it at the monthly meeting.
2026-05-07 14:25:26 - 2026-05-07 14:25:27Yeah.
2026-05-07 14:25:27 - 2026-05-07 14:25:28It should go to the court actually.
2026-05-07 14:25:28 - 2026-05-07 14:25:29Or court.
2026-05-07 14:25:29 - 2026-05-07 14:25:30And if you can't get any of it, it goes to the secretary to take it home.
2026-05-07 14:25:30 - 2026-05-07 14:25:31And above that it's the King.
2026-05-07 14:25:31 - 2026-05-07 14:25:32And above that, in law it's the King.
2026-05-07 14:25:32 - 2026-05-07 14:25:33The House of Lords is then the King.
2026-05-07 14:25:33 - 2026-05-07 14:25:34And as it stands in law now, there's a court, a few courts that we still subscribe to in
2026-05-07 14:25:34 - 2026-05-07 14:25:39Europe.
2026-05-07 14:25:39 - 2026-05-07 14:25:40Yeah.
2026-05-07 14:25:40 - 2026-05-07 14:25:41In the council, if we don't get any of it, we can't go to court for human rights.
2026-05-07 14:25:41 - 2026-05-07 14:25:47It's against my human rights, that my neighbours choose any one of my things.
2026-05-07 14:25:47 - 2026-05-07 14:25:48And you don't get any of it with the council and whatever.
2026-05-07 14:25:48 - 2026-05-07 14:25:49Eventually you can take it to the Hague.
2026-05-07 14:25:49 - 2026-05-07 14:25:52In Holland.
2026-05-07 14:25:52 - 2026-05-07 14:25:53And they can rule over the religious courts still.
2026-05-07 14:25:53 - 2026-05-07 14:25:54But they're going to be leaving that if conservatives or reform come in.
2026-05-07 14:25:54 - 2026-05-07 14:25:55Which one?
2026-05-07 14:25:55 - 2026-05-07 14:25:56Oh, wait, should we say which is it?
2026-05-07 14:25:56 - 2026-05-07 14:25:57Which one is it?
2026-05-07 14:25:57 - 2026-05-07 14:25:58The prices have gone up.
2026-05-07 14:25:58 - 2026-05-07 14:25:59So let me just see what's happening.
2026-05-07 14:25:59 - 2026-05-07 14:26:00So the prices have gone up.
2026-05-07 14:26:00 - 2026-05-07 14:26:01The price has gone up.
2026-05-07 14:26:01 - 2026-05-07 14:26:02So they are going to leave the council.
2026-05-07 14:26:02 - 2026-05-07 14:26:03The prices have gone up.
2026-05-07 14:26:03 - 2026-05-07 14:26:04So they're going to leave the council.
2026-05-07 14:26:04 - 2026-05-07 14:26:05The prices have gone up.
2026-05-07 14:26:05 - 2026-05-07 14:26:06So they're going to leave the council.
2026-05-07 14:26:06 - 2026-05-07 14:26:07Which one?
2026-05-07 14:26:07 - 2026-05-07 14:26:08The prices have gone up, so let me just see what prices, if you can take just one second.
2026-05-07 14:26:08 - 2026-05-07 14:26:15So, what prices for the HP-10, HP-6 for North and Station?
2026-05-07 14:26:15 - 2026-05-07 14:26:20If I've not changed them then it's the same as last week.
2026-05-07 14:26:20 - 2026-05-07 14:26:22No, it's already been dispatched.
2026-05-07 14:26:22 - 2026-05-07 14:26:25Oh, I'm a special.
2026-05-07 14:26:25 - 2026-05-07 14:26:26It said last week you were speaking to him or something about prices.
2026-05-07 14:26:26 - 2026-05-07 14:26:29Oh, one second. Did I not put them in? I thought I put them in.
2026-05-07 14:26:29 - 2026-05-07 14:26:33They should be in. It's fine.
2026-05-07 14:26:33 - 2026-05-07 14:26:35Is it the same as last week? £16.99, £12.49?
2026-05-07 14:26:35 - 2026-05-07 14:26:38Yeah.
2026-05-07 14:26:38 - 2026-05-07 14:26:39And we can still do with our prices?
2026-05-07 14:26:39 - 2026-05-07 14:26:41Yeah.
2026-05-07 14:26:41 - 2026-05-07 14:26:42Some areas have another council in Yarn. It's Stockton Council, it's the main council, like Sheffield Council.
2026-05-07 14:26:42 - 2026-05-07 14:27:02But they have a town council and a parish council.
2026-05-07 14:27:02 - 2026-05-07 14:27:05Oh.
2026-05-07 14:27:05 - 2026-05-07 14:27:06And they have different layers. There's a parish council and they've got authority over one playground next to the church.
2026-05-07 14:27:06 - 2026-05-07 14:27:12And they always vote for them as well.
2026-05-07 14:27:12 - 2026-05-07 14:27:15Oh.
2026-05-07 14:27:15 - 2026-05-07 14:27:16And they're like a Facebook group for the town. They hate each other. They have such big political arguments.
2026-05-07 14:27:16 - 2026-05-07 14:27:22Oh.
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