[garinda]

Originally Posted by derekgas

Seems to me we pay them for not a lot, I wasn't aware they had no influence (or say in things) locally, that is I think, very sad, and needs to change, mainly because it appears that councillors either get things very wrong, very often, or they themselves actually dont have much clout/make enough noise.

You have a point.

I think we expect a more greater degree of professionalism of MPs...hopefully, than we do of our councillors.

They decide our laws, and if we are going to go off an fight a war etc, but locally our councils have much more impact on our day to day lives, now and in the future, yet many people don't really care if we have a bunch of numskulls in charge of a massive multi-million budget...raised from our council taxes.