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To: The Department for Communities & Local Government
Government interference with councils
We call on the DCLG to reconsider its proposal to prevent local councils from making their own decisions on boycotts.
Why is this important?
Locally elected councillors should be free to reflect the views of their local voters, to whom they are accountable, on how council money should be spent - or where it should not go. To prevent local councils from making decisions to reflect the views of their voters is profoundly anti-democratic and Un-British. Compelling councils to invest in the arms trade, or industries supportive of law-breaking foreign regimes, is high-handed and centralising. It makes a mockery of previous government statements about local democracy.
