Being a councillor is something that many people manage to do in their spare time from a full-time job.
Good for you. However unfortunately I doubt you're on Bagby's local council. I used to live up that way and they truly are a shower of shít. They are incapable of identifying with anyone who has interests which are outside their wax jacket and home-made-jam borg collective field of social vision; exactly the kind of closed-minded people who should be specifically prohibited from such positions.