Asturias56
Not quite. Cllrs get an allowance and usually Cllrs on a committee get an additional allowance. In some councils this can easily equal a full time job salary for what is usually a couple of evenings a month.
regarding the polls in a local paper it’s hardly scientific. It would be interesting to know if any of the parties have done polling on the airport being an issue. Sadly this is usually kept private and just passed to the candidates so we won’t know.