The SNP, Labour and Scotland: my response to this week's Twitter storm.https://medium.com/@OwenJones84/the-snp-labour-and-scotland-47ec3bea1e25 …
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Totally agree - wish more
@theSNP candidates came forward for council elections - some people on council are a disgrace2 antwoorden 2 retweets 4 vind-ik-leuks -
*Butting in* What's got me, as a new councillor, is that tribalism and bad blood supersedes common sense, to the detriment of communities.
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I couldn't agree more. Common sense and freedom of thought seems to be mia a lot of the time. It's seriously frustrating.
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If I could wave a magic wand, I'd restrict councillors to 2 terms. Too much negative history preventing progression. Need greater 1/2
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Representation from folks in the community - of all ages, shapes, sizes and colours. Too many men ruling the roost for too long. IMHO
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Totally agree and boy do we need gender balance! The renumeration is a barrier to many younger folk though.
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In West Lothian, 24 men 9 women. New female councillor is Deputy Leader (Lab) & I wish her well. Main reason I stood was for female voice.
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We've also got some new young folk on both
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In Argyll and Bute we are light on youth unfortunately. We have 10 female cllrs out of 36. The SNP group is the most gender balanced 4/11
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Most youngsters leave, though I think there's quite a few 35+ that would consider standing if they thought they could effect change
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Too often it's seen as a retirement or part time job, in my opinion at least, that's a big part of the problem.
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