Local Elections: Remember what you are voting for.

Ok next week we have a lot of elections for local councillors across the UK.

I have, as I am sure you have, received all sorts of electoral communications from the various parties and have been interested in the topics covered.

I thought in order to educate myself, I would look at exactly what local councillors can influence and what they can’t, and of course then share it with you. The aim here is to help ensure we are all informed on what a local councillor can impact, and thereby review the literature the various parties have been sending on the relevance of the messages to the posts being elected.

To do this I found 48 various sources looking at local government in the UK. This included the actual information from the Government, and various studies from think tanks etc. I then used Notebooklm to help me collate the information from the reports, which I then validated and used to produce some easy to digest outputs.

First up here is a simple infographic which aims to clarify what local councillors and councils are and aren’t responsible for, and provides a simple check list for topics that should be covered by their electoral literature.

A short video to summarise what I discovered.

And a slightly longer and more in depth podcast created by NotebookLm discussing the information sources and findings.

The last resource is a series of slides that people can use to help educate themselves and others.

Thanks and please vote, and use your vote for someone who actually wants to help.