Is One Green Cllr is Worth Over 30 Others?

Reading Council monitor the workload of Cllrs with “Front Office”. This year there is for the first time a Green Cllr for comparison, the amount of work Rob White has done is extraordinary.

Other Cllrs wait to be asked to do something, Rob and a few helpers, knock on doors all year round seeking out work. I know because I have helped him do this. Part of the reason there is so much to do in Park Ward is because the other two Cllrs, and the one Rob beat in the last election, have low scores.

Cllr Rob White (Park) Green 467
Cllr Tony Page (Abbey) Labour 106
Cllr Gareth Epps (Katesgrove) Lib Dem 92
Cllr John Ennis (Southcote) Labour 78
Cllr Rachel Eden (Whitley) Labour 76
Cllr Tom Steele (Kentwood) Conservative 61
Cllr Daisy Benson (Redlands) Lib Dem 55
Cllr Isobel Ballsdon (Thames) Conservative 53
Cllr Bet Tickner (Abbey) Labour 49
Cllr John Hartley (Park) Labour 46
Cllr Tom Stanway (Caversham) Conservative 45
Cllr Richard Willis (Peppard) Conservative 45
Cllr Jo Lovelock (Noroct) Labour 44
Cllr Kirsten Bayes (Redlands) Lib Dem 38
Cllr Glenn Goodall (Redlands) Lib Dem 34
Cllr Mike Orton (Whitley) Labour 33
Cllr Mark Ralph (Peppard) Conservative 32
Cllr Ricky Duveen (Tilehurst) Lib Dem 32
Cllr Deborah Edwards (Southcote) Labour 31
Cllr Gul Khan (Battle) Labour 28
Cllr Andrew Cumpsty (Caversham) Conservative 27
Cllr Pete Ruhemann (Southcote) Labour 27
Cllr Wazir Hussain (Park) Conservative 26
Cllr Paul Gittings (Minster) Labour 20
Cllr Peter Beard (Tilehurst) Lib Dem 19
Cllr Tim Harris (Church) Conservative 17
Cllr Chris Harris (Tilehurst) Lib Dem 17
Cllr Rebecca Rye (Katesgrove) Lib Dem 13
Cllr Jenny Rynn (Kentwood) Conservative 11
Cllr Marion Livingstone (Minster) Labour 11
Cllr Warren Swaine (Katesgrove) Lib Dem 10
Cllr Dave Luckett (Caversham) Conservative 9
Cllr Sarah Hacker (Battle) Labour 9
Cllr Graeme Hoskin (Norcot) Labour 9
Cllr Deborah Watson (Minster) Labour 9
Cllr Jeanette Skeats (Thames) Conservative 8
Cllr Mohammed Ayub (Abbey) Labour 8
Cllr Chris Maskell (Battle) Labour 8
Cllr Fred Pugh (Mapledurham) Conservative 7
Cllr Emma Warman (Kentwood) Conservative 7
Cllr Jim Hanley (Whitley) Labour 5
Cllr Peter Jones (Norcot) Labour 4
Cllr Jamie Chowdhary (Peppard) Conservative 3
Cllr David Stevens (Thames) Conservative 3
Cllr Azam Janjua (Church) Conservative 3
Cllr Mike Townend (Church) Conservative 3
Totals 1738
1271 excluding Rob, the lowest 31 add up to 449.

The numbers have caused some local speculation, Tory and LD.