Guest 148 I find my self agreeing with you and that by and large most councillors are good honest people. I may aspire to national politics one day and indeed my role as a cabinet member does have a occasional regional and more rarely a national impact -albeit to a much smaller degree. At one point (i can't remember exactly which parliament it was but over 40% of MP's had local government experience. The Tensions between Local and national politcs are well documented. Cllr