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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.

▲ rvense 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

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 5 minutes 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 (noise, 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. other than initially picking their voters: your employer has no further say 2. due to the allocation rules: micro-businesses have most of the votes, small food vendors have significantly more votes than all the large businesses`