Your chance to influence the standards and ethics in Thanet!

Thanet council are currently seeking the appointment of an independent member for their standards Committee.

Well some of you will be aware of just, what the standards committee is, basically the purpose of this committee is to maintain and enhance standards and ethics in local democratic government although in practice the legislation and operation of Standards Board's has come in for criticism as previously mentioned in this blog.

The creation of Standards Boards I believe is the work of John Prescott and if that's not recommendation enough and you wish to be enlightened further, please click here to acquaint yourself with some background, personally from what I know the Standards Boards, are more likely to trample over the democratic process, than enhance it.

Anyway if you're not put off I suggest you contact the council by ringing 01843 577207 since although their advert suggests visiting the website WWW.Thanet.Gov.UK for an information pack , this possible applicant, was unable to find it or apply online, still, give it go click here and see if you can find it (I'm not infallible see last post).