Sentences with phrase «politicians are accountable to the people»

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A wider issue remains about the extent to which public funding should be accountable to people locally and to what extent local politicians should have some say over local services.

People want to see politicians being accountable.

Can a party whose rationale for existing is to grow progressive economic movements throughout the country «where politicians are held accountable to working people, instead of big - money backers» really work for, endorse, and host on its line one of the greatest threats to its agenda within the Democratic Party?

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

Contemporary politics (ie, politicians) can not cope with accountability, and so defers sovereignty away from «the people» (to whom they are accountable) to a higher agency, such that it can be made «necessary» to meet «international obligations» (and to avert catastrophe) before meeting demands «from below».