A broken promise has haunted the Derby Conservative party

At Derby City Council AGM today, The Derby Conservative Party lose all 20+ contested Committee/Neighbourhood Board positions. A concerted effort by opposition Councillors significantly eroded their control of many key positions.

The leader of Reform Derby Councillor Alan Graves has said “First of all you need to read into the idea of positions. The Reform Derby members have reduced their number of positions by one as we are not here for the extra allowances. The number of positions remains the same whether we vote with the Conservatives or the remainder of the Councillors.”

“We insisted on leaving the Conservatives in charge of the council. However, since they broke their manifesto commitment and their written agreement with us to move to the democratic Committee system from the current Cabinet system, we decided to give them a bloody nose to make the point that the Conservative leadership need to treat all councillors with respect and fairness.”

He also added “The running of the council will not change much but it sends a clear message that when agreements are made they must honour them. The casualties in this situation are the ordinary councillors of the Conservative Party.”

The Derby Conservative manifesto in 2018 promised to move to a committee system:

Derby Conservative party leader also signed an agreement to move to a committee system with our group and the Liberal Democrats:

Above is agreement with our group

In January the Conservative voted down moving to a committee system.

Reform Derby is committed to move to a committee system, a fairer system.