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Originally Posted by davemac
Don't think that old adage works, when I started my apprenticeship councillors were not paid , and the standards were far superior than they are today. Plus most of the workforce in my old department are now agency staff, and most of the work now gets undertaken by the private sector. none of which have the required indepth knowledge or training.
This may have saved money but the public are not well served. To get back on topic a mayor with no affiliations would be able to at least strive towards a better service based on what the public deserve, not what they think it should cost.
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I think that's a very simplistic way of looking at things, when I first became involved in local politics nearly 50 years ago councillors weren't paid, but its an all new ball game today, councillors are on call 24/7 and believe me, although I've never been a councillor, dealing with the general public is no easy job, because everybody knows how to run the council, from the armchair, but very few are prepared to stick their toe in the water and have a try themselves. Regardless of party I have always said people who take on public duties as a councillor deserve everything they get, because the man in the street is the hardest person to deal with in the world