TBF the LibDems' councillors association - to which many of its more serious candidates join, if not many of the paper ones - puts out a lot of stuff encouraging councillors to be fairly ruthles… (View Post)

The key is to find a way of locating them, ideally through someone else's experience rather than your own, and then have some sort of tag to flag them for ever more as people to be avoided. Most… (View Post)

On the Island we have 39 Reform (out of 39 seats), 36 Conservatives (35 using their new "local Conservatives" descriptor plus one who presumably didn't read the email), 30 varied Indep… (View Post)

Congrats to both of you, by the sound of it! (View Post)

If you want to avoid the local nutters, best advice is not to stand for your local council. After all, if you do get elected, you'll be spending a lot of time with a fair few of them. (View Post)