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Originally Posted by Guinness
Strange post since your last post agrees that, in the main, you need party support to be elected.
As usual our local meglomaniac MP has only half a grasp of logical thought..There is no queue because of the reasons you outlined in your last post and I'd also suggest that most people aren't prepared to sacrifice independent thought and personal dignity just to become a councillor. (walkouts anyone?)
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It's actually more a case of very few people having the energy to go through the rigmarole of elections to try and improve their locale when life already presents us with more than enough problems of our own to sort out.
I'm glad I did it and I enjoy the work but there's a lot of flack and every little problem is your fault. You've really got to want to do the job, especially when you realise that everyone who voted for the other guy automatically dislikes you when you win your election. The law of diminishing returns also comes into play when you think that for every person you please there are another ten who are angry (and ALWAYS more vocal about it).
Nobody really adores their local councillor and yet the vast majority have only stood up to try to make life better for everyone. Even Winston Churchill, the most popular politician of all time, got voted out by a disillusioned Great British public.
I'm not quite sure why you view Graham Jones as a megalomaniac and in any case he's spot on in this instance. There isn't a queue of people waiting to be councillors and I've been told that I'm the first in a long time to actively come forward for consideration rather than being asked to stand.
There are several prominent residents in Rishton who I've asked why they never stood for Council and it's always because they simply couldn't be doing with the hassle.