Sentences with phrase «just local councillors»
So it's not just local councillors making off - colour jokes about gays and ethnic minorities who are going to get the order of the boot.
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First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.
In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.
The chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, Jeremy Newmark, explained how a Jewish Labour councillor had been verbally abused by other members of his local party and told that «you are responsible for the slave trade» just days after Jackie Walker's Facebook comments.
My views have made me unpopular with some of my colleagues, but my position as a local councillor means that I am in the fortunate position of being aware of more of the evidence, and not just the information the tobacco companies feed me.
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.
Importantly, the Localism Bill does not just liberate councils, but also individual councillors in their role as advocates for their local communities.
Today, Labour Councils across the UK, and the Labour administration in Wales, are just so abjectly carrying out the devastating new wave of terminally damaging budget cuts, that the «Corbynite Left agenda» is being actively discredited, on the ground, long before we actually have any influence on the agenda of local councillors at all.
Rennard's apology comes just days after the party lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections and found it had got just 7 % of the vote in the European elections.
Local councillors, policemen, a property millionaire and a drag queen are just some of the candidates standing in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections this year
Just as our members providing vital local services know the real cost of cuts will be paid by their communities, Liberal Democrat councillors charged with implementing cuts are waking up to the dangers.
Just as in general elections, local councillors in England and Wales are elected via First Past the Post.
«After eight years as the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East and six years as a local councillor, I know just how important it is we ensure everyone has access to a high - quality and affordable public transport network, with safe cycling routes across the capital.
The Conservatives dropped to their lowest - ever percentage of the vote in a London local election, at just 29.9 %, and fell to their lowest councillor total since 1998.