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Originally Posted by Julian
Exactly what qualifications do you need to be a councillor and make breathtakingly stupid decisions?
Surely there should be some suitably trained people available to advise on some of the things that councils get up to.  |
All you have to do is to get breathtakingly stupid people to vote for you and that's it.
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Actually, councillors are not always in a position to make descisions but they can help fight a battle sometimes (or sit on their fat old ar$es "earning" their allowance on top of their pensions).
The trouble is that party politics get in the way most of the time. In our town all previous Labour councillors in all 4 wards were overthrown in the recent local council elections by a group of independent councillors. Great we all thought. However, in the Borough Council Cabinet there were still just enough remaining Labour and Conservatives out of all the towns to colude in their voting to make sure none of independents got in the cabinet (which is where all decisions are made). Now all we get is leaflets through the door from Labour and the Independents which consist mostly of childish bickering.
I have never understood why party politics should get in the way at a council level. That final interface with the people, a ward councillor, should be completely devoid of any politics and just "do the right thing".