• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Two councillors stepping down in an area where they would vote for a donkey if it wore a red rosette is not a story.

    I doubt many people in Sefton itself could name these two. Yet it’s supposed to be of national interest?

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      I doubt many people in Sefton itself could name these two.

      How many people know the councillors from their neighbouring wards unless they are a council bigwig? Personally, I didn’t know one of them but I voted the other one in.

      The significance is that this is coming on the back of other councillors stepping down last week and a slow trickle of resignations over the last few months. Individually, it might not be a big deal but it is part of a larger trend that is worth reporting on.