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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2013 11:47:51 GMT
What do Community Councils do in Scotland? Talk about seagulls.  |
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Post by Philip Davies on Mar 19, 2013 14:38:40 GMT
I wonder if the BNP candidate in Gooshays is any relation to Eva. The name of the Tory candidate there doesn't seem best suited to the ward Marcus Christian Sebastian Lleywellyn-Rothschild. |
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Post by paulypaul on Mar 19, 2013 17:05:33 GMT
Community Councils in Scotland have no role in the provision of services, nor do they have tax-raising powers, unlike the Parish Councils of England and the Community Councils of Wales. The North Lanarkshire Community Councils Scheme defines the statutory role of community councils as follows: “Community Councils are voluntary organisations. Their role is established by local government legislation which identifies the general purpose of a Community Council to be to ascertain, co-ordinate and express to the local authority - and to other public authorities - the views of the community it represents, in relation to matters for which those Authorities are responsible, and take such action in the interests of that community as appears to be expedient and practicable.” The North Lanarkshire Community Councils Scheme describes the role of a community councillor as follows: “Community Councillors are required to represent the views of the local community. To do this Community Council members will have to ascertain the views of people in the community on particular topics. The views of the community may, from time to time, conflict with the personal views of individual Community Council members. When this situation arises a Community Council is required to ensure that the views of the community take precedence over the personal views of individual members.” The North Lanarkshire Scheme provides for blanket coverage of North Lanarkshire with 80 councils. The scheme sets out a membership formula for councils of between 12 and 30 members, depending on the population. Within the total membership, there is provision for elected and for co-opted members. Community Councils are established only where there is local demand. 20 local electors may start the process to form a community council by petitioning North Lanarkshire Council to set up a council and hold an election. The Council is only formed where sufficient candidates are nominated in the election to form a quorum. At the last quadrennial community council elections in North Lanarkshire, only 41 councils were formed out of a possible 80. The 41 councils (all unwarded) were elected unopposed, without exception. The Highland Council Scheme provides for 196 community councils (all unwarded). At the last election round in 2011, elections were called for 137 councils out of a possible 196. 112 were uncontested and 25 were contested. With regard to the current Community Council elections in South Ayrshire, I note that 23 councils have been formed out of a possible 29. 21 councils (embracing 32 wards) are uncontested and just 2 single-ward communities are contested. Thank you listener I am now totally educated about community councils. |
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Post by listener on Mar 19, 2013 17:13:18 GMT
A thank you to you as well, paulypaul, for rooting out all those parish council by-elections. You (and Mark Senior) are keeping me very busy, writing up my reports.
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Post by marksenior on Mar 19, 2013 17:46:42 GMT
A thank you to you as well, paulypaul, for rooting out all those parish council by-elections. You (and Mark Senior) are keeping me very busy, writing up my reports. Hi Listener , I have picked up around 15 other Parish/Town council elections , I will send you a private message of the more interesting ones . |
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Post by paulypaul on Mar 19, 2013 18:50:45 GMT
A thank you to you as well, paulypaul, for rooting out all those parish council by-elections. You (and Mark Senior) are keeping me very busy, writing up my reports. No problem. I only dug out the interesting ones like Maltby with a serious TUSC chance of winning and Exmouth and Shepton Mallet, where the political parties were slogging it out. I'll do like Mark is going to and PM you any interesting ones I hear of. I have noticed noticed odd ones like this about Sandgate PC where there are uncontested elections with only one political candidate standing in a hot political area. |
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Post by AdminSTB on Mar 20, 2013 9:56:26 GMT
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 20, 2013 11:41:40 GMT
That blog is excellent as always, but it doesn't allow me to post comments other than by setting up all kinds of weird accounts which I can't be arsed to do, so will post my comment here
"Hemel is still growing slightly and has overtaken Watford to become Hertfordshire's largest town"
This development took place IIRC in 1981, but since then the position has been reversed and Watford has a significantly larger population than Hemel. I think it retook the laurels in 2001 as far as population went
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 20, 2013 12:09:49 GMT
I assume that is the wider Watford conurbation rather than the (somewhat restricted) borough boundaries??
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 20, 2013 12:12:03 GMT
No the borough of Watford alone now has a population of just over 90,000 which is several thousand more than Hemel
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Post by listener on Mar 20, 2013 13:13:32 GMT
I just wanted to say how much I enjoy reading Andrew Teale's weekly previews - very informative.
I have the polling station analysis for the whole of Scotland 2012. If someone starts a thread for 2 May - I will post the polling station analyses for Leaderdale and Melrose and for Landward Caithness.
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Post by hempie on Mar 21, 2013 15:26:34 GMT
I've had a wander around Adeyfield West. You would not know there was a by-election happening, very little activity. Poster count that I spotted 2 Con, 2 Lab, 2 LD, nothing for UKIP or ED. At the Polling Station I visited (Adeyfield Community Centre) there was only 1 teller (LD), she said footfall was very slow.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 21, 2013 19:55:36 GMT
I've seen a tweet suggesting Labour were doing some knocking-up, but it came from somebody who is angling for the number 2 slot on the list for the Euros next year. She'd therefore presumably be helping out even if aside from her it's just one man and a dog.
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Post by jompy on Mar 21, 2013 22:16:58 GMT
Any guestimates of times of the result or if they are counting tonight in Gooshays ?
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Post by nigelashton on Mar 21, 2013 22:41:15 GMT
Turnout for the Maghull Town Council by-election is 20.5%
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Post by Andrew_S on Mar 21, 2013 22:56:24 GMT
Wouldn't Tufnell Park be a better name for the St George's ward?
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Post by paulypaul on Mar 21, 2013 23:04:03 GMT
I see a report of Lodbourne, North Dorset result. First local by-election of night sees CON lose Lodbourne in North Dorset to LDs. LD 187, Tory 134 www.twitter.com/MSmithsonPB |
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Post by marksenior on Mar 21, 2013 23:04:10 GMT
LD gain Lodbourne 187 to 134
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Post by Khunanup on Mar 21, 2013 23:10:28 GMT
Predictable, but satisfying! Validates our decision to fight the single battle.
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Post by andrea on Mar 21, 2013 23:13:00 GMT
LD gain Adeyfield West from Labour
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