Fun fact, the City of London is the last local authority in the UK where businesses as well residents get to vote. Businesses can appoint one voter for every five employees up to 50, and then one per 50 employees after that.

▲ randomcarbloke 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Fun fact, comments like this give me the impression this place is turning into reddit.

▲ rvense 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you know how that adds up, what the ratio of business votes to residential votes is? I imagine many more people work in the city than live there.

	▲	blibble 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		there are more business votes, but practically very few people actually use their business vote as a business voter I went to my ward's annual meeting (wardmote), they were surprised to see a non-resident there nearly the entire thing was about issues residents care about (late noise, cycle paths, petty crime, etc) that and their amazing new plans for billingsgate/smithfield the other are a couple of other things to remember about City ward lists: `1. employers have no involvement other than picking their voters -- it's up to the individuals 2. due to the allocation rules: micro-businesses have most of the votes, so small food vendors have significantly more votes than all the large businesses`