Post #3130897
2026-05-19 20:51 UTC
"Most of the people who've proved they can do the job [of local councillor] come up through the community network, so they might be active residents, they've lived in the area, but what we've seen with this surge of 1500 particularly Reform councillors is people coming in with not much clue. And that extends to not knowing which council they've been elected to. A councillor who was elected to Newcastle-under-Lyme council rocked up at Kidsgrove Town because she got confused about the name."
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@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com 2026-05-19 20:55
"Over in Suffolk we've got a situation where the new Reform leader has said we need some training to get up to speed, so we think we need about 6 months of training and then an intensive day for our raft of councillors. Most of us hire people for a job that know how to do it as opposed to turning up and going where do I start? We're not talking about internships, we're talking about directly elected officials who have a job to do and budgets."
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@LJClements8@universeodon.com 2026-05-23 19:25
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com I feel sorry for the local government workers having to deal with all these, likely clueless, new councillors.