31 August - What does your Councillor do for his £10K per year?
It is a long time since Bonkers stole something from @tonyofsidcup; to be honest I felt he was getting rather too aggressive towards Councillors and I did not want BiB
to be associate with that. By and large I am not blocked by Councillors on X, just Philip Read and the paranoid Teresa O’Neill who has been known to report criticsi to the police. @tony is blocked by most. However it is the last day of the month and I need to
have something left over for the 1st of the month when the software complains if there is nothing posted on Day 1.
So here we are with the latest bee extracted from @tony‘s bonnet.
The theme is that one measure of Councillor's worth is to count the number of times they ask questions the majority of which one may assume are prompted by residents’ enquiries. Below is the raw data and a possible explanation.
As @tony acknowledges, the Places Directorate attracts
the most questions, roads and dustbins basically so understandably of most
interest to most residents. It may explain why Councillor Diment gets such a low
ranking; as Cabinet Member for Places he should know all the answers already.
Peter Reader at 23 enquiries over two years is far from being bottom of the
list. Nick O’Hare scores only 15 and Patrick Adams only eight. Not that he is the worst
performer. Chris Taylor, Peter Craske, Cheryl Bacon and Felix di Netimah are all jostling for the Net Zero position.
The only Independent earning his keep is James Hunt.
There is a whole load of data on X at
https://x.com/tonyofsidcup/status/1961850870175297719 for those who may wish
to see how busy their Councillor has been. My new one Jeremy Fosten has one of
the higher scores. Impressive for someone who has not yet completed his first
year in office. Maybe he has more to learn than his collegaues one of whom makes a decent stab at
plumbing the depths at nine enquiries in two years, but perhaps Jeremy is just an Eager Beaver. I would like to think so. If I need to
contact a Councillor In Belvedere, he would be my ‘Go To’ contact.