Councillors - The Voice of Choice

Abstract

This chapter explores who councillors are, what they do, why they do it and how they might do it better. First, though, try to talk to one or two councillors yourselves. Find out at first hand how they spend their time and how they justify their elective existences. They will not be ‘typical’, but part of the message of this chapter is the unhelpfulness of thinking exclusively of typical roles and behaviours. Your councillors will probably differ one from another just as much as do our own small castlist, to which we shall now introduce you.