Andrew Snowden: What I have learnt from my first year as a councillor
Don’t try to please everyone. Focus on results not endless meetings. It doesn’t matter what it says in the minutes – nobody reads them.
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Andrew Snowden is Chairman of Chorley Rural East Conservatives and Hoghton with Wheelton and Clayton North on Lancashire County Council. He currently holds a management role in Higher Education, and previously worked for a FTSE250 company.
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Andrew Snowden: I’m proud that Lancashire County Council is the first to make a stand against non pre-stunned meat
This is not a ban on halal meat. It is an animal welfare issue – to end pain and suffering that we would not tolerate under any other circumstances.
Andrew Snowden: We are delivering our manifesto for the people of Lancashire
We are prudently managing the finances while filling potholes and re-opening libraries.
Andrew Snowden: Thank you, Theresa – more than 500 new councillors have reason to be grateful to her
We win when her leadership is combined with a distinct local message.
Andrew Snowden: In Chorley, the Conservatives have a chance to retake lost ground
The seats being fought were last contested in 2012 after the Pasty Tax Omnishambles Budget.
Andrew Snowden: We’ve made a good start reducing the cost of politics – here’s how to do even more
Now the number of MPs is being cut, why not cut the number of ministers? And SpAds? And local “Champions”?