Did they make the appointment with a straight face, or did the good councillors have a very good lunch and come back as inebriated as newts?
We went into this election with a councillor base at its lowest level since the late 1970s - and it looks like we'll be losing more good councillors across the country tonight".
He campaigned mightily to preserve the correct usage of the apostrophe, and the good councillors of Clogthorpe would be lampooned regularly as they ponderously set about desecrating their Victorian town in the cause of modernity.
But good ward councillors (and other authority figures) certainly can make a difference.
Conservative council leader Ian Hudspeth said there was "never a good time" to debate councillor allowances, but that the authority's were among the lowest of all county councils across the south of England.
Local groups are in a good position to approach councillors and get the council to agree to take refugees," he said.
It should not be simply assumed that with a little interview training nurses and councillors make good interviewers, or that because someone has a degree in social science they are naturally able to do rich in-depth interviews.
Yes, the hereditary principle is a mad way of selecting people for jobs that matter; but, without being flippant, in a constitutional monarchy such as Britain's, the monarch matters rather less than a local councillor, or a good dentist for that matter.
They also lost many of their local councillors, who make good footsoldiers.Another explanation for the Lib Dems' terrible performance is that they are no longer necessary.
