It’s Friday. Time for a bit of a laugh. This ‘Yes Minister’ clip provides a rough outline: And on the wider perception of councillors, here’s Vic & Bob’s take: Joking aside, if there is one thing that desperately needs rebranding, it’s the very idea of the Local Councillor.
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2009 predictions from elsewhere (and one of my own)
My friend, former Hansard Society e-democracy watcher Ross Ferguson says: A local government will fall head-over-heels in love with the promise of eDemocracy and launch into an ambitious project to put digital front-and-centre of its democratic processes and service provision. It will be facilitated with next-generation municipal ICT and it will capture our imaginations but [...]
Local Referendums – coming to a town hall near you?
Well, we knew it was coming – here: “New proposals to make it easier to get local leaders to hold a referendum on their leadership structure, putting communities firmly in control of their town and council, has been published for consultation by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.” It is particularly interesting that these votes will be [...]
Fix My Street iPhone application
The very smart MySociety project developed Fix My Street a while back. Now you can post pictures to it by iPhone. There is no reason why councillors can’t be encouraged to be active users of this – and to ensure that everything that they post to it can be fed onto their personal web-pages. This [...]
