I would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents of the whole Ward of Crowland & Deeping St Nicholas for their support at the recent election.
It is a privilege to represent you and I will do my best to ensure I look after your interests. I will continue to work hard within the council and try to make sure Crowland & Deeping St Nicholas gets its fair share of resources.
It was an unusual election which resulted in more Independents being elected even though the Conservatives fought a good campaign. For them to have lost control it would have had to have been a landslide not just some serious losses.
For a number of sitting members to be re-elected should not be a surprise when one considers we have had four years of weekly “Cabinet Call”, in one of the local papers.
Whilst being informative it does enable portfolio holders to be consistently “advertised”. Whether it makes a material difference I leave to your judgement but I suspect it must have a beneficial effect.
As a result of those articles the public could be led to believe that they are the only one actually doing anything.
In my experience nothing could be further from the truth with members from both sides of the chamber being actively involved in many other day to day aspects of the authority. Perhaps the communication department might like, from time to time, to feature some of the activities mere members are engaged in.
Bryan Alcock
District Councillor
