Clause 29
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords]
1:15 pm
David Curry (Skipton and Ripon, Conservative)
No, I accept that, but the most high-profile way in which someone might wish to express a political opinion is by standing for election to a council, and there are a number of bodies that have a political role to which people can be nominated. The Dales national park is not entirely made up of councillors, for example. I wonder how real the issue is. Quite frankly, why are we bothering with it? I think that we have invented a problem, and I do not understand why we should invent a solution to a non-problem.