The Educated can Take Heart!

[CoolRobin]

On Monday morning, up and down the country, people with no previous experience of Local politics, will be storming in to council chambers, fuelled by adrenaline, vowing to make immediate changes but with little idea how to make it happen as vacant as the minds of those who voted them in.

They will be relying on Reform National Office for guidance, which will be slow in coming as they’ll be overwhelmed, unprepared and quite possible unbothered.
The new councillors will treat the people who work for the council with utter contempt, after all they have "a mandate from the people!"

Those very people who actually do the work in councils will continue to serve their towns, villages and cities, after all it’s their job, but I doubt it will be with enthusiasm.

Within weeks, the cracks will become apparent, the resignations will start, the revelations will appear, the peurile excuses will be proffered.

Right now, Reform at Local Council level are drunk on euphoria; sobriety will exact a terrible toll.

So if you’re sad at the moment, allow yourself a little smile as you imagine the terror that is beginning to grow in elected councillors without a clue.
I suspect their own supporters expectations will be part of their downfall.

I actually feel a little sorry for them... Nah, just kidding; let the carnage begin!

Formal council meetings tend to be during the day, if for no other reason because they often require officers and external agencies to attend. Looking at the schedule for my local council for March, committee and full council meetings tended to be at 10 and 2, not 6pm.

None of our new councillors will be storming anywhere on Monday morning, not least because we're one of the new unitary authority areas and the new councillors are going to be shadowing alongside the previous ones for a WHOLE YEAR until spring 2027!
I think several of them will probably have given up, been dismissed for something dodgy on X, or become independents!

Funniest thing is seeing people on Facebook ranting about 'how much is it going to cost the tax payer to have TWO SETS of councillors at the same time??'
People really don't know much about local politics.

Our council meeting are all in the evening as councillors have days jobs. I'm sure they have to deal with some meetings in the daytime, as and when they can fit them in though.

I read that three of them had already left within about 24 hours. One or more of them were said to be ‘paper candidates’, ie, they had agreed to be a name on the ballot paper but didn’t really expect to get the job!