Glenn Goodall

Once again the council’s case work stats have been released for the last two quarters – and it’s some interesting reading!

This time it has proved very useful, because Labour were trying to suggest that my ward colleague Daisy was to busy to do basic ward work… I think the numbers speak for themselves

As you can see 5 of the top 10 councillors are Lib Dems and two of those are also potential MP’s after the next general election (Being Daisy Benson for Reading West and Gareth Epps for Reading East)!

I would say that people should look at last weekends politics show, both the Labour and CONservative candidates for Reading West seemed fairly bland and reading from a script, where as our Daisy showed she had actually worked in the areas discussed.

When you look at the data, the average number of cases per councillor is very interesting:

Despite being a group of only 8 councillors, we are far better at helping local people than the other two parties. This is a consistent trend which holds from quarter-to-quarter, making us truely cost effective. I should also point out that Cllr Tony Jones isn’t doing too badly either.

Looking at each ward, Redlands once again came first. Katesgrove also did well, I suspect the ward will do very well if our next candidate, Rebecca Rye, gets in (the current Labour cllr reported 5 items).

In Park ward the story is quite shocking! The two Labour councillors managed to do 6 pieces of casework between them. Where as the CONservative cllr managed 26, in the past Labour mocked this councillor for allegedly not holding councillor surgeries… hmmm… I would say that Park would do well to elect our candidate, Alex Kirke as he is hard working and has been following neighbouring Redlands and Katesgrove councillors, to see how its done.

Thames CONservatives also seem fairly low down on the list, after the farcical events at budget – I’m not surprised.

Looking at the bottom of the table makes very depressing reading, but at least there were no zero’s this time: