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Watch out!!!........it’s those wacky councillors!!

There are those of you out there that think the daily life of a councillor involves nothing more than a quick photo opportunity, pooper scooper in hand showing the good councillor

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the job of a councillor isn’t all picking up dog muck, being a councillor sometimes involves

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Cricket is a game of deep thought and

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degree of thought and concentration to remember you’re a member of a Cricket

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one councillor from Epping Forest when considering a planning application for a cricket club, indeed, he not only forget he was a member but also his brother (and business partner) was in fact President of

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apparently happened to Councillor Richard Morgan, whom also apparently forgot to

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Councillor Morgan was found guilty by a panel of the district council’s standards committee, but they ruled that he did not bring himself or the council into disrepute,

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He said: “I’ve been in local politics for 27 years and chaired all the committees the district council has. I’ve always declared my interests. The clerk admitted at the hearing that he may have simply forgotten to record my declaration in the minutes.

“It would’ve made no difference to the meeting if I’d declared an interest or not. My

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club and everyone knows my situation but there’s a group of councillors who didn’t like not getting their way and so decided to complain about me. I’m pleased with the outcome because the committee agreed it was only a technical breach. I’m pleased it’s all over because it has been very stressful for me and my family.”

Sorry councillor Morgan, but if you were

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Nope, it’s not all dog sh*t, those cabbie hating councillors of Salford, who incidentally

deregulated taxi numbers, will be no doubt amused to have read that one of their own seems to have dropped a rather larger

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a twitter to his girlfriend, but made the silly mistake of twittering it to all his colleagues, one of them read: “Chatted up by Hungarian

2 night who had foil red heart but no

t**s.”..........Little wonder you were Salford council’s lead member for Education during 2007, again, this is the same councillor who in a heated meeting of Salford council during 2009, said he was ‘incredulous and angry’ at the decision by the decision of the independent school’s adjudicator, Canon Richard Lindley, to keep St George’s RC

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lady was equally ‘incredulous and angry’ at

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t*ts, it’s not all cleaning up dog muck is it!

This is the same Salford Council who recently banned biscuits and drinks to save money

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union bosses in March with plans to shut a

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council depot Turnpike House, on Eccles New Road, where refuse collectors, trading

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that bourbons, custard creams, and rich tea biscuits will no longer be served at council

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wandering into peoples houses and emptying their knicker drawers! Yes, wacky

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district councillor in Knott End, was found with £900’s worth of women’s stolen underwear - some in bags with the names

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only (geddit!!!!) did the councillor break into houses, he actually individually labelled the garments before putting them in a bin liner, that takes a special kind of lunatic!

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paid back hundreds of pounds claimed for

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spending watchdog was called in by another councillor to probe Town Hall expense

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Jim Ellis asked the district auditor to look at mileage claims submitted for journeys taken

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found evidence of:

Councillors who do not have a driving licence claiming mileage for journeys;

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Households with two councillors travelling together but putting in separate claims. Short journeys always being rounded up.

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this place is tough, don’t wear an England

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tarnished of late as it would appear the leader of Glasgow councillor was in fact a

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told me Glasgow was a cosmopolitan place

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opponents of former Glasgow council leader Steven Purcell demanded full disclosure of

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Mr Purcell, 37, unexpectedly quit the council leadership and his job as a councillor last

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Since then, there has been a steady stream of revelations in the media about why he

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team wanted to cite a “chemical dependency” in his resignation statement but Mr Purcell refused at the last minute to allow this phrase to be included and hired his own spokesman

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hospital specialising in drug and alcohol dependency and it was claimed that a search was launched when he disappeared one

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in wet clothes, leading to speculation he had

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Blackheath Councillor Mary Docker has been reprimanded by Sandwell Council’s Standards Committee after an 11 month

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to the summer of 2007 when the councillor

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