Sentences with phrase «not elect a councillor»

I don't think Labour will get 9 councillors though I think maybe 1 or 2 conversley they could get there best vote since the 1970s and still not elect a councillor.

Not exact matches

Despite his rural pedigree, I would not discount his ability to build relationships with the group of young municipal leaders who have been elected in recent years, including Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton City Councillor Don Iveson.

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 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.

It doesn't cost anything to stand and anyone motivated to want to leaflet all the houses in their ward and argue against Brexit will have the desire, passion and skills needed to make a success of being a councillor if elected.

Former Labour minister Vera Baird, now an elected police commissioner, has stripped all references to policing drugs out of her plans for the Northumbria force, and Lib Dem Sarah Brown this week urged Cambridge councillors that arresting cannabis smokers was not «a good use of resources».

Across the country there are hardworking, much - valued councillors who do not represent the Conservatives or Labour, or any party at all, who deserve to be, and will be, elected and re-elected on their own merits.

Whilst it may not be top of the Tory target list (it is in fact 338th on the list), there are seven Conservative councillors within the boundaries of the constituency - and the wider North Tyneside Council has a directly - elected Conservative Mayor, Linda Arkley.

That includes areas like West and Brockwell that I wouldn't have thought have ever elected Labour councillors prior to this year.

Some of the councils that elect in this way can not possibly change overall control, because the existing majority for the controlling party is larger than the number of councillors they could lose.

The fact that councillors are elected to serve the public does not inevitably mean that all their actions will do so.

For the danger of the «notional observer» test propounded by Jackson J, ie one who is fair minded, informed, not complacent and not unduly sensitive or suspicious, is that the role of elected councillors may not fully be taken into account.

However, central to such a consideration must be a recognition that councillors «are not in a judicial or quasi-judicial position but are elected to provide and pursue policies».