On 18 January 2010, In For Councillors, by James Cousins
We mentioned the C’llr 10 event when we highlighted their Councillor of the Year award (for which I’m one of the judges and having a very hard time trying to pick winners) but they’ve now got their programme in place for next week’s conference.
There are a couple of sessions that might be of particular interest [...]
On 12 January 2010, In For Councillors, by James Cousins
League tables always promote competition. After today’s batch of additions there was a new leader on the party league table.
Due in large part to some recruiting at Wirral Council by Cllr Chris Blakeley the Conservatives, very briefly, became the largest party in the listings, with 129 councillors to the Liberal Democrats 128.
This is the first [...]
Today our ‘live’ listing hit the 400 mark. Cllr Flick Rea became the 400th councillor to feature in the Cllr Tweeps list of Tweeps. Quickly followed by four others there are now 404 local councillors listed in our directory (technically there are 424, but twenty are hidden having lost elections, resigned or, in one case, [...]
It’s less than a month to go until the Local Government Information Unit hold their C’llr.10 conference.
One of the key parts of the event will be the Councillor of the Year award for which nominations are currently being taken.
Obviously modesty (and the fact he or she isn’t a real councillor) means Cllr Tweeps will not [...]