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@Rob 9265 wrote:
Probably better for a seperate thread but I would say we have deliberatly not done some newspapery stuff… and blogs can do what we do. Llanblogger is a good example, even has blog in the name. Interestingly this debate wouldnt and couldnt take place on newspaper sites I can think of.
Hyperlocal sites are a dead interesting topic as there are people trying to dream up rules, models and pigeonhole things into defined boxes but no actual ‘right’ way or definative criteria. Will start a thread when on a pc :)
No rules being dreamt, If you want to be opinion based and not give both sides of the story, you can if you want to be just a blog. That is fine, now i know,
Just a shame that you won’t give right of reply and publicising one side of the story.
@johnhoppy 9262 wrote:
In defense of Wrexham.com, every councillor has a right of reply on these forums as has every one of us. I don’t suppose they are hovering at their computer waiting to respond to every comment on here as it occurs, but if they feel strongly enough about anything they would do so.
If wrexham.com doesn’t want to be an independent online newspaper and be a blog, I would agree with that.
Jeremy Hunt said on the 25th march this year that non GB EU nationals ‘probably’ accounted for 200m of the 100 billion NHS budget. (figure would also include tourists)
That’s 0.2% of the NHS budget.
thats figure was ten times as much as cameron said.
No 10 struggles to back up Cameron’s immigration speech claims | Politics | theguardian.com
Of the 2.2 net EEA migrants, 13,000 were claiming Job seekers allowance in march 2013.
@NJones 9255 wrote:
Interesting that Councillor Andrew Bailey attends everything but when I tried emailing him recently he didn’t bother to reply to me. Maybe some councillors attend for the free coffee?
I’d say only 5% of councillors reply to an email, unless of course you say you are from the leader or the daily post.
@thunderbirdskid 9252 wrote:
You seem to be criticising Rob for re-publishing the raw data in a table format? I don’t see the problem. Rob then asks what indicators should be included in the councils raw data. Every other gov dept is audited or efficiency and value for money…Why not our elected officials?
I’m criticising wrexham.com for not getting a right of reply from the councillors. If a councillor is only attending 60% of meetings, i would like to know why. After all councillors get a generous wage from the residents’ council tax. So rather than just print a simple spreadsheet, he should spend 5minutes in a skypecall to the actuall councillor and get a reply why?
Our elected officials should get much more scrutiny than an attendance record
voting records being the most importance issue etc. For instance I’d like to know:
If my councillor voted for the design of the eyesore meadow,
if they voted for the wrexham village
if they are responsible for the secondary schools
etc.@Rob 9248 wrote:
A right to reply to what?
As per initial post
The raw ‘official’ public data is limited to attendance data here. The data is purely numerical , and not linked to give further information on apologies or the like. Similarly there is no data on other types of meetings or events.The issue with this is its very raw with no context
Should the higher Councillors get a ‘right to reply’ on why they have attended meetings, likewise those with middling records?!
The point is the data out there is limited… so what data would be useful?
If a councilor is suffering from health problems, yes they should.
we all have a right at work not to enter our workplace because we are ill. The same should be for councillors. Councillors should have a right to reply, so that electorate can decide for themselves what is an acceptable level given their illness.
When the MP expenses scandal happened, the newspapers still went and tried to get a right of reply from the MPs.
However, If you aren’t willing to be a newspaper, then it’s fine to publish something without trying to get to the bottom of the reason why some councillors have a low attendance figure..
Even the evening leader has right of reply.
So have you contacted the lower councillors for a right of reply?
what if they were ill or had a health problem and unable to attend?
It concerns about that the eastern europeans are becoming the new black.
A) An employer must fill in the details of any employer in real time now. If they do not have the correct documentation, the employer gets a fine of 1,000. So obviously the employer is either breaking the law in employing somebody who is illegal or the employee is legal.
B) Except for the over 65s population, all the age groups haven’t increased in Wrexham much over the last 2 census. So the problem is not immgrants swamping the system, it’s a case that locals are leaving (in my opinion probably education and no job prospects if you want to earn more than 20k) and the immigrants have chosen wrexham to live in.
For me, one of the attractions of returning is that wrexham is more cosmopolitan that is ever been before. I’m used to living in places where the immigrant or second generation immigration population is at least 50%. I love it.
@Welsh Dresser 9167 wrote:
Do you think the club is sustainable as a fan based club or is it’s fate to stay in the lower echelons of football. My Dad’s attitude is that he supports the club no matter what league they are in.
Is it sustainable? Good question. It will be, but it’s still a large tanker changing direction and that is going to taken longer to fix than anyone imagined.
