Doyle said: “I will not be resigning. I continue to fulfill councillor duties outside of attending council meetings. <\/p>\n
“My priority is to be embedded in the local community. I am disappointed with Liverpool City Council for various reasons. I have little faith in the democracy or illusion of democracy that plays out in the town hall.” <\/p>\n
Hayden said: “I will not be resigning. I am active in my local community. I was out campaigning this weekend in fact. I do not post on social media due to its corrosive nature. I just don’t live my life online like Richard Kemp.”<\/p>\n
Kemp, who was elected in 1973, is the longest-serving councillor in Liverpool. <\/p>\n
He said members who did not attend many meetings were letting down those they had been elected to represent.<\/p>\n
He said: “We all get tarred with the same brush ‘you’re all in it for yourselves, you do it for the money’. Well that’s not true”. <\/p>\n
He added: “I have a responsibility to look at standards and probity and try and get the Labour Party to do something about this situation.” <\/p>\n
Kemp said he had combed council attendance records to support his claims that the councillors in question had only attended a handful of meetings. <\/p>\n
He said he had not seen them feature in Labour or council social media accounts, or their own public social media accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doyle said: “I will not be resigning. I continue to fulfill councillor duties outside of attending council meetings.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644889","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=644889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}