Sentences with phrase «local councillors do»

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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.

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.

- 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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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».

«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.

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.

I was a trauma and emergency doctor in London with a number of years overseas doing humanitarian aid work and I'd only become a local Labour councillor in May of 2014.

We hope that local campaigners will be able to use our report to encourage their local councillors to do more to end child poverty in their area and support those families facing the greatest hardship.»

But it in doing so, it removed the need of local councillors to think about the merits or otherwise of new local housing.

Gillian is a local councillor with a strong track record of getting things done for her community.

Graham Allen, the chairman of the city's local strategic partnership between police, councillors and the probation service, insisted a new study by independent think tank Reform was «lazy stereotyping» and would do little to help the fight against crime.

Chairman, Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission, SIECOM, Dr. Saratu Dikko, said the postponement of the Chairman and Councillors local government elections was done to amend some...

They have recognised that «people locally don't feel they have an adequate say in the running of local services» and that «a majority don't think councillors represent their views».

The allowances councillors receive vary between local authorities, but for most, do not adequately reflect the number of hours they work.

Many factors appear to have contributed to the restart but unhappiness amongst some activists at the failure of a local councillor to progress contributed to some very destructive scrutiny of the candidates that did progress.

``... an active campaign against my leadership by a local Momentum organiser, being called a neo-Nazi by some Corbyn t - shirt wearing person outside the Labour Party Conference, and events at a national level targeting Labour Councillors and Labour Councils that do not conform to the particular form of ideological purity that seems to have taken a grip of the party...»

Councillors of all parties up and down the land have been doing a sterling job of raising the issue with local officials and highlighting the matter in the local press, and I hope they will continue to do that.

Sure, local councillors from all parties do important work and personal votes can be gained — yet on the big picture Labour were lying.

Osborne has shot Burnham's fox and the local councillors never even told him what they were up to, joined up thinking, don't make me laugh.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «Parents, the local community and local councillors have a right to know why a trust is being removed from its responsibility — and that should be done through formal processes.

Susan Hinchcliffe, local councillor and lead on education, said: «I want to see action, not more reviews» and questioned «what else a commissioner would do».

What we've done is try to shine a bright light on the industry here in Hamilton and we've worked with our local city council as well as councillor Matthew Green to bring in the provinces first municipal licensing of payday loan outlets in Hamilton.

Talk to local Councillors and council candidates about what local councils can do to tackle the climate emergency.

Once upon a time, not long ago, when the people in your community said to you and your local councillor «listen mate, I don't know all the scientific reasons why, but there's something going on (with these bloody big turbines) that means I can't sleep and drives me nuts» then you would be believed.

Listen to Darebin Councillor Trent McCarthy talk about what local councils can do.

One is former Chateauguay city councillor and local businessman Michel Gendron, who is fighting the legality of a motion presented by council to dismiss him from office over his refusal to complete an obligatory declaration of property, which all elected officials are required to do under Quebec's Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities.