{"id":310722,"date":"2025-12-11T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310722\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:10:10","slug":"councillor-says-ai-video-of-mayor-of-gloucester-serves-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310722\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor says AI video of Mayor of Gloucester &#8216;serves purpose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Bowkett is a member of the Liberal Democrat group, but the role of city mayor is apolitical and ceremonial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Liberal Democrat group said the video is &#8220;appalling&#8221; and they urged the council to launch a formal complaints and standards investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Gloucester deserves councillors whose priority is the city and the residents they serve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Not cheap stunts. Not mockery. Not behaviour that belongs in social media outrage clips,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked whether a formal complaint had been lodged against Mr Chambers, Gloucester City Council said it &#8220;cannot comment&#8221; on &#8220;individual elected members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A special meeting in to the authority&#8217;s financial position is scheduled to take place next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Bowkett is a member of the Liberal Democrat group, but the role of city mayor is apolitical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-310722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}