And I've been close to getting one, on one occasion.
Comes from enjoying living dangerously!
Many local councillors, and officials for that matter, resent anyone showing them up.
The cry often comes up
"You're not on my ward; go get stuffed"
It comes across as though they don't want to be exposed as doing nothing (or very little)
Jamie Samson has maybe walked unwittingly into a hornet's nest.
He got in as I remember by a very few votes over Colin Williams as SLDC Councillor for Town Ward last year.
You will see from the SLDC web site (It's not easy - change the 2009 to 2008 and press "Go" - are they hiding?) that Cllr Samson has only joined one relatively inactive committee - that for licensing, and that he has attended this only twice. Furthermore he has missed two meetings of the Full Council. An attendance of 8 out of 11.
Now contrast this with Cllr Mark Wilson also new to the SLDC and
WOW what a difference :
Mark attends three important committees as well as the Full Council with a near perfect record having only missed one meeting out of a massive 29.
So who would you vote for in the next election - Labour (Mark) or Conservative (Jamie)
This is of course biased reporting as Cllr Janette Jenkinson (Conservative)- an old hand at the game - attended 33 out of 35 meetings and is a member of the demanding Planning Committee and two others.
Furthermore it is important to note that you can attend a lot of meetings and do nout (absolutely nothing other than breath and listen).
It can be difficult to find out exactly what they do do without going to the meetings oneself (yawn).
As this blog is attracting comments from several noteworthies like Cllrs Jenkinson, Kolbe, Samson, Wilkinson,Williams with some very quotable phrases ... I leave you to delve . . . using the label "Councillors comments" below:
Isn't this internet lark fun sometimes!
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I am sure a few of them are only in the job for free trips to Albert in France.
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