Hold tight – this is a post about local politics. The Birmingham Press has posted some news about Labour’s planned changes to how Birmingham City Council will now be run (since they’re in charge now). There’s discussion about it on the Restirred forum too. Martin Mullaney, the previous Cabinet Member for Leisure, Sport and Culture explained:
The all powerful Cabinet Committee has been completely reconstructed, with previously centralised powers devolved down to District Committees
You’ll have twigged from the title of this post that there’ll no longer be a Cabinet Member for Leisure, Sport and Culture. Who will have responsibility for those areas and what will happen if there’s nobody pushing the arts and culture agenda at the council? Will we really notice much difference?
There’s been some Twitter-based wailing and gnashing of teeth about the lack of an elected figurehead for the arts but, to be perfectly honest, I’m struggling to muster any real interest in this. Thought I should mention it though.