I have been watching ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’ and it got me thinking that we could have a new game – “I’m a councillor and you elected me”.

The idea is that you send county councillors into a borough, say Rossendale, and then instead of bushtucker trials you set them local tasks.

Such as: make sure the roads get gritted this year with no fuss; provide good quality schooling in state of the art schools; have roads that you can drive up without thinking you’re in a Third World country; provide dignified care for senior citizens; stop recruiting for jobs with daft names and instead concentrate on developing excellent core services.

In addition, they could do team-building exercises, for instance here in Rossendale, our FIVE Conservative county councillors could all come out of their separate camps and work together to ensure we get a bus interchange (not a bus station) on the Valley Centre site in Rawtenstall.

If they can’t use raw political clout to achieve things like this, what is the point of having councillors?

Another challenge: “Beat the system” where councillors take it in turns to take on the system known as County Hall and its all powerful officers, to get results that actually benefit the people of Rossendale.

They have to avoid being buried in bureaucracy and not allow themselves to become intoxicated with garrulous power. Every four years we would have a public vote to see how well they have done.

Right, that’s my last column on councillors for a while, with the general election looming perhaps it’s time to start having a look at those who would “represent” us down south. A whole new game – “Who wants to be an MP?” An easier way of becoming a millionaire than taking Chris Tarrant on!