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Posted by: Gordon Southwell
Date/Time: 06/08/25 08:33:00

I don’t spend much of my life talking to councillors but I do have a relative who serves as one and a good friend who spent many years as a ward representative.

In addition, I have encountered socially or professionally others and spoken with them. Acknowledging the limitations of this pool of evidence, what I can say is that the picture they present is very different from the dystopian view you have which seems to be based on nothing other that your very bleak view of the human condition. People who serve on the other hand present a very different picture and seem regularly to credit their most bitter political opponents with the virtue of diligence.

Councillors who swing the lead and just stick around to collect allowances do exist, but they are necessarily in the minority because they are deeply unpopular with colleagues who have to pick up the slack.

Some councillors do need allowances to make end meet and some don’t fully earn them but most spending an amount of time on council business that effectively means that their hourly rate is well below the minimum wage.

I don’t monitor the activities of every councillor in the borough and I doubt you do either (if you did that would be really strange), so just because you don’t hear from a councillor doesn’t mean they are inactive. Most casework will be relating to housing, adult social care and, increasingly special needs education for which privacy considerations prevent councillors posting about what they are doing on social media.

If you have personal experience with a councillor who has proven to be not worthy of office in your view, we should hear about it. Nobody is disputing that they exist but if they aren't put in the spotlight then they will continue to get elected.

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            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots31/07/25 10:33:00 Eric Alan Leach
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots31/07/25 11:05:00 Rosco White
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               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots31/07/25 16:09:00 Mark Evans
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                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots01/08/25 08:36:00 Ben Owen
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots01/08/25 09:24:00 Peter Yale
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   Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots01/08/25 13:30:00 Simon Wycombe
      Re:Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots01/08/25 22:13:00 Ben Owen
         Re:Re:Re:Hanwell says NO to the slots02/08/25 00:24:00 Peter Yale
            Reply05/08/25 11:46:00 Gordon Southwell
               Re:Reply05/08/25 13:14:00 N V Brooks
               Re:Reply05/08/25 13:14:00 N V Brooks
                  Reply05/08/25 14:10:00 Gordon Southwell
                     Re:Reply05/08/25 14:29:00 N V Brooks
               Re:Reply05/08/25 16:09:00 Peter Yale
                  Re:Re:Reply05/08/25 20:11:00 Rosco White
                     Reply06/08/25 08:33:00 Gordon Southwell
                        Re:Reply06/08/25 10:36:00 Rosco White
                        Re:Reply06/08/25 11:19:00 N V Brooks
                           Reply06/08/25 14:45:00 Gordon Southwell
                              Re:Reply06/08/25 15:29:00 N V Brooks
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                                                Reply07/08/25 08:50:00 Gordon Southwell
                                                   Re:Reply07/08/25 09:58:00 Rosco White
                                                      Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 10:51:00 Paul James
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                                                               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 13:18:00 N V Brooks
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 11:41:00 Peter Yale
                                                            Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 12:56:00 Simon Wycombe
                                                               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 13:32:00 Simon Hayes
                                                                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 13:39:00 Rosco White
                                                      Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 13:55:00 David Burke
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 16:58:00 Keith Iddon
                                                            Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 18:14:00 David Burke
                                                               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply07/08/25 20:10:00 Rosco White
                                                            Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/08/25 11:28:00 Paul James
                                                               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/08/25 12:37:00 N V Brooks
                                                                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/08/25 12:58:00 Keith Iddon
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                                                                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/08/25 14:01:00 Keith Iddon
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