Local government governance guru Peter Keith-Lucas has
an article in this week’s Local Government Lawyer assessing the current state of governance in local councils.
It’s a good read – expert but not too technical. Keith-Lucas has plagues to put on the houses of both parties: the Labour party for watering down the proper role of scrutiny [...]
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Interactivity v political success
Cllr Mary Reid (a Kingston-Upon-Thames Lib-Dem) has a short post up about percentages of councillors blogging. Cutting to the chase….
In the UK …
7% of all Liberal Democrat councillors have websites/blogs.
2% of all Conservative councillors have websites/blogs.
1% of all Labour councillors have websites/blogs.
The Lib-Dems plainly value interactivity more highly than the others, and this [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
