Nominations to stand in the District Council\u00a0\u00a0elections on May 5 opened today. Why not stop critisising the local authority and stand for election instead? You can help \u00a0take the blame for some of the crazier planning decisions, and you will earn over \u00a36,000 a year, plus expenses AND a laptop computer. No naughty downloads though!<\/p>\n
Full training (or is it indoctrination?) given. You will be up against the mighty party machines of the Tories and the LibDems, but \u201cThe Blog\u201d will give a platform and a fair hearing to any candidate who puts themselves up. That includes the main parties too by the way, but we suspect they won\u2019t bother.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlog\u201d readers might do particularly well \u2013 the very helpful and informative leaflet issued by the council stresses a sense of humour is an important qualification!<\/p>\n
Nominations close at noon on the 4th<\/sup> April.<\/p>\n Download the council\u2019s information on becoming a candidate <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nominations to stand in the District Council\u00a0\u00a0elections on May 5 opened today. Why not stop critisising the local authority and stand for election instead? You can help \u00a0take the blame for some of the crazier planning decisions, and you will earn over \u00a36,000 a year, plus expenses AND a laptop computer. No naughty downloads though! … Continue reading “Under starters orders for the election”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-4E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}