Have you ever thought about becoming a councillor?

by Lib Dem team on 28 September, 2019

In 2020, Stockport will elect 21 councillors. But in 2022, every single seat will be up for election. This is because the ward boundaries are changing. (Cheadle & Gatley is too big, so some parts are likely to move into other wards).

Have you ever thought about being a councillor and representing your local area on Stockport Council?

All parties need new candidates who care about their area and want to make it a better place.

Whichever party you support – or if you see yourself as more of an independent – you can find information on becoming a councillor on the Local Government Association’s Be a councillor site.

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  1. John Hartley says:

    Bearing in mind how much abuse, often personal, that politicians of all sorts get these days, I think you need to be something of a special person to even want to become one.

    By the by, back in my relative youth, in 1979, I was a unsuccessful candidate for both Parliament and the council for the then Liberal Party. Times have changed – things are certainly less gentle now.. The Lib Dems are not that party nor am I still that person.

  2. Councillor or MP you have to be able to tell people to there face lies and skirt round the truth.
    I couldn’t do that your new leader has done that all ready in the past

  3. Robert Cohen says:

    I’m not PC enough – hence my views on all and anyone who abuses politicians! Deterring people from standing for public office by threats or acts of violence must be dealt with in the harshest ways possible, since it strikes at the core or out democracy. Agree or not with political views, I admire all those who put their heads above the parapet!

  4. Bruce says:

    As Ken Livingstone said “If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it”.

    • John Hartley says:

      Bruce, I’ll see your Livingstone and raise you a Churchill

      “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

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