Thanks to one of our regular readers who contacted me last night to say how he now understood blogs were good for relieving frustration.
The average councillor serves one four year term then runs for sanity. Andrew has done twice that and I have done about five times that, both of us grateful for the support you give us to enable us to serve you. It is worth showing the "sterner stuff" Andrew and I are made of on your behalf. We are not universally popular in the Guildhall, time-servers and time-wasters get short shrift from us as do "right on " types being "worthy" rather than doing what you expect from local government. however we are unconcerned since we are your voices in the Guildhall and it is you we serve, w e have not "gone native".
However it is an interesting reflection that one of the latest ideas in the Government's barmy "Councillor's Commission" is that Councillor's should be ineligible to stand again beyond a point they set! Yes you will be denied the chance to sack or retain an individual after a short period......while oddly enough no such idea has emerged for our well paid, highly pensioned MP's!
So "welcome to our world" will run as a series so you can see just why it is Andrew and I are made of "the right stuff" and do indeed work for you all year round, be it tough questions, mocking speeches, probing analysis, or sheer exposure to the real world some of the ideas that emerge from within the splendid panelling of the Guildhall. We speak for Bricknell.
