We started this blog a couple of weeks ago as a communication tool and have updated it regularly with manageable pieces of information.As it has been useful for some, we wondered which Council members ran a blog or website to keep their electorate in the loop. Here are the findings:
- Timothy Ball - Liberal Democrat - Twerton
- Sharon Ball - Liberal Democrat - Westmoreland
- Cherry Beath - Liberal Democrat - Combe Down
- Sarah Bevan - Liberal Democrat - Peasedown
- Neil Butters - Liberal Democrat - Bathavon South
- Nicholas Coombes - Liberal Democrat - Bathwick
- Paul Crossley - Liberal Democrat - Southdown
- Gerard Curran - Liberal Democrat - Twerton
- Colin Darracott - Liberal Democrat - Walcot
- David Dixon - Liberal Democrat - Walcot
- Ian Gilchrist - Liberal Democrat - Widcombe
- Nathan Hartley - Liberal Democrat - Peasedown
- Lynda Hedges - Liberal Democrat - Westmoreland
- Malcolm Lees - Conservative - Weston
- Shaun McGall - Liberal Democrat - Oldfield
- Nigel Roberts - Liberal Democrat - Odd Down
- Will Sandry - Liberal Democrat - Oldfield
- David Speirs - Labour - Paulton
- Roger Symonds - Liberal Democrat - Combe Down
It is striking that this list contains only one Conservative and one Labour Councillor. We checked it out and found the Conservative link leads to a fairly standard local Conservative website and the Labour blog hasn't been updated since 2007.
As B&NES Council has a Conservative majority, surely in 2009 there should be on line comments and information from at least some of these Councillors? Then we discovered that Cllr. Francine Haeberling, Council leader, has issued a directive forbidding all Tory Councillors from running a personal blog.
You can draw your own conclusions.
P.S. The links were taken from the B&NES' website, if you know of any new additions please let us know and we will add them to the list. Thank you.
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