Sentences with phrase «councillors do»

You might start with the most climate friendly councillors, but don't underestimate the ability of all councillors to respond positively to a well - crafted climate emergency argument (councillors don't receive carbon industry kickbacks!).

«Teachers don't want it, parents don't want it, governors don; t want it... even his own MPs and councillors don't want it.

Right now councillors don't receive a salary.

HMRC insists virtually all councillors do some kind of work from home, so they don't think it's a big deal.

However, the county councillor did not defend the seat in the May 2013 election, nor did the EDP put forward another candidate, losing them the seat.

Just one of the council's seven Labour councillors voted for the policy, leaving Labour as the only party where a majority of councillors didn't back the policy.

He had no doubt that the councillors did feel under pressure not to participate and he therefore quashed the decision so that the matter could be:

Commissioner Cunningham recommended that the MCIA be amended to state explicitly that a councillor does not violate the Act by making submissions to Council concerning the imposition of a penalty under a municipal Code of Conduct.

Not exact matches

Nor did he attend councillor training sessions that covered conflicts of interest.»

While Councillor Leibovici spoke about continuing along the current path laid by the mayor, she gave little explanation as to what she would do to build upon the ambitious past nine years.

And he did earn endorsements from a number of conservatives during his by - election bid, including Councillor Diane Colley - Urquhart, former PC MLA Gordon Shrake and former mayor Rod Sykes.

«Edmonton needs a mayor with experience, one who doesn't reduce significant issues to one - liners,» she told reporters, taking an obvious direct shot at Councillor Kerry Diotte.

Councillor Toby Neal at Nottingham City Council was quoted by the Nottingham Post as saying: «Whilst respecting the court's decision, I feel the judge has missed the point of us bringing this action, which was to protect people from feeling bullied and intimidated while accessing hospital services - something we don't welcome in our city.»

Andrew Wood, Tower Hamlet's Councillor for Canary Wharf Ward replied to May's Tweet and said: «There were specific allegations in Times report which we still do not know whether true or not.

Just as in general elections, as the electoral pendulum swings so do the fortunes of councillors and would be councillors.

And I did that because I thought that Jeremy Corbyn deserved a chance to take Labour into the election,» says Craig, who is also a Labour councillor.

«It allows every councillor to consciously make a decision with regard to senior pay... it just seems to me to be a reasonable thing to do.»

Wragg, a chum of Pursglove's, did not have a similar enlightenment, though his time as a councillor gave him a taste for elected office.

It would be good if James Purnell did try to help build those bridges and links; several of our more forward - thinking councillors and most active parties are trying to do that too.

It is no more news that since the inception of this administration, some of your elected political office holders, especially the Chairmen have been removed by Executive fiat for very flimsy excuse; your chosen councillors were tagged illiterate and area boys and that they do not deserve commensurate remunerations.

A fightback is now well and truly underway with the Sun, Telegraph, Express and Mail doing (1) a particularly good job at highlighting waste in those councils making the biggest cuts in local government and (2) also the massive inflation in councillor remuneration.

If labour does win Councillors in outer London next year it won't be an increase in the labour vote but.

[citation needed] The two sitting English Democrat councillors on Calderdale and Blackburn with Darwen councils retired, and the party did not nominate any candidates to contest the seats.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

We've taken Basildon and Peterborough and we've shown what hard work by Conservative councillors can do in delivering for people,» she said.

When asked about the comments, the prime minister said that she «did not agree» with the councillor.

- I would certainly vote against a local councillor that did this without considering other areas first, but because of the shift to localism this is actually irrelevant to the matter at hand.

The civil service welcomes combined authorities with DEEMs as a way of achieving its long - held aspiration to diminish by amalgamations the number of councils, and thus councillors who do not want to accept the line from Whitehall.

As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.

«We don't force people to work for us exclusively without being able to work for any other employers,» said cabinet member for finance councillor Mark Allison.

Our councillors, like all councillors, have had to take some controversial decisions — I don't deny that.

This reputation is well deserved, but it depends on active local parties and enthusiastic Liberal Democrat councillors who do the hard work for the party on the ground.

The party has a reputation as a hard worker: its councillors run intensive local campaigns, its activists are highly visible in their local communities, and the party just gets things done.

Councillor Paynter said: «Yesterday's announcement from central Government on additional funding, though welcome, does not -LSB-...]

[94] The SNP increased their number of councillors elected in 2017 than it did in 2012, with 431 being elected, compared to 425 in the 2012 local elections.

Importantly, the Localism Bill does not just liberate councils, but also individual councillors in their role as advocates for their local communities.

The Tories didn't increase their count of councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap by hoovering up Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote share also rising.

Because county, metropolitan and borough councillors have no staff or office in their districts or wards (despite in some cases being paid more than MPs) by and large our constituents come to the MP first, not properly understanding that things like planning, lighting, schools» admissions or policing are not strictly our responsibility - and frankly nor do they care.

But Eastleigh does NOT represent firm evidence that the party can fend off its national unpopularity by dint of a strong local party, dozens of entrenched councillors, a highly - effective postal vote operation and the influx of thousands of volunteers.

As for the Lib Dems, he mentions a councillor in Weymouth accused of serious wrong - doing.

«Owen is standing in response to calls from ordinary members, Labour voters and Labour councillors, MPs and MEPs from across the country and from all wings of the party for him to do so.

But the mayor said it would «stimulate local democracy» and giving more powers over spending to elected councillors «would electrify politics and it was high time we did it».

Jeremy does not know my father so I can only presume that because of the much - publicised fact that my father was a Sinn Féin councillor, Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me.

«Frankly, every local councillor that I have spoken to, the ones who have performed better than anticipated today did so in the very, very local messaging.

In all likelihood, five or six hundred Conservative councillors have already «won» without a vote being cast, either because they have been returned unopposed, or because they do not face a full slate of opposition candidates in multi-member wards.

However, parties are dependent on local councillors to keep going in most areas, and if a party's local councillor base is destroyed, it becomes increasingly hard to do well at Parliamentary level.

Both successful candidates had previously served as SDP councillors but did not join the Liberal Democrats.

About a third of Labour councillors said Ed Miliband was not doing a good as leader, and 30 % reckoned they would do better with someone else at the top, a Sunday Politics / ComRes survey found.

Cllr James Mustoe, deputy leader of the opposition Conservatives at the Council amongst others demanded answers from the administration — how much did it cost and why the lack of communication to even councillors?

Naturally we don't know how the planning officers vote although it is likely that Socialism is the prevailing orthodoxy - just as it would be, for instance, among the social workers of Cambridgeshire County Council where Labour have three of the 69 councillors.