Richard Baum

Executive last night was about as riveting as any meeting can be when your bit is thirty seconds long and comes around after two hours of standing outside waiting. But there were lots of other, more important things to discuss, so I don’t begrudge it, and you can read a full report of what went on by visiting Cllr Tim Pickstone’s site here. 

What was lovely though was that a number of my Councillor colleagues saw me loitering outside and said congratulations on the recent “Politics Show” appearance, and the speech I made at the last full Council. These positive words were completely out of the blue and came from members of both of the other two political parties. It was extremely heartening and genuinely made me feel very lucky indeed to be part of a collection of people who can put political differences aside to be nice to one another.  

I was quite touched, truth be told. I have found my fellow members to be universally supportive to me as a junior member throughout the last seven months, so maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. But it was very pleasant all the same. 

Rick