David Miliband tells in his blog how India: "now plans devolution beyond the 29 states to local government, where he explained that some 3 million people are elected councillors, over one million of them women (more elected women than the rest of the world put together)" Fabulous statistics. I wonder Read more
Cllr Martin Mullaney from Moseley and Kings Heath Ward, Birmingham has a thing with taggers. He has recently made a film about the tagging on a sports pavilion in his ward and posted it to YouTube. Amazingly it has had over 2000 views and over 200 comments mostly from taggers Read more
It’s been a hectic day today calling all the councils who have expressed an interest in I’m a Councillor but from whom we’ve not had a definite yes or no. We’ll do a final count tomorrow but it looks like we’ll have about 35 councils taking part in October which Read more
The sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed a little extra eye-candy today. This site now sports a bright yellow button that links through to the page showing how people can get involved in the Local Democracy Campaign. The aim is to get as many people displaying the button as possible. Read more