Another way of looking at the Labour Councillors, would be to list them in order of first election to the Council. So I thought I would take on that little challenge and below is the resulting information.
This reveals much about the current crop:
| Name | Year first elected |
| Positively Prehistoric | |
| Jennifer Whysall | 1978 |
| Gerald Smith | 1979 |
| The Garvin Reed Years | |
| Ken Wyatt | 1985 |
| Glyn Whelbourn | 1988 |
| Maggi Clark | 1990 |
| Alan Gosling | 1991 |
| Sue Ellis | 1995 |
| Alan Atkin | 1996 |
| Shaukat Ali* | 1998 |
| Ann Russell | 1998 |
| Lyndsay Johston | 1999 |
| The Years of cover-up and denial | |
| Amy Rushforth | 2000 |
| Josephine Burton | 2002 |
| Dave Pickering | 2002 |
| Jane Hamilton | 2004 |
| Rose McNeeley | 2004 |
| Darren Hughes | 2008 |
| Kath Sims | 2008 |
| Simon Tweed | 2008 |
| Alan Buckley | 2010 |
| Brian Steele | 2010 |
| Christine Beaumont | 2011 |
| Dominic Beck | 2011 |
| Lyndsay Pitchley | 2011 |
| Chris Read | 2011 |
| Andrew Roddison | 2011 |
| Shabana Ahmed | 2012 |
| Lauren Astbury | 2012 |
| Maggie Godfrey | 2012 |
| Emma Hoddinott | 2012 |
| Denise Lelliot | 2012 |
| Chris Robinson | 2012 |
| David Roche | 2012 |
| Emma Wallis | 2012 |
| Gordon Watson | 2012 |
| Post revelation still stuck ‘in the headlights’ | |
| Stuart Sansome | 2014 |
| Saghir Alam | 2015 |
| Jayne Elliot | 2015 |
| Simon Evans | 2015 |
| Ian Jones | 2015 |
| Tajamal Khan | 2015 |
| Jeanette Mallinder | 2015 |
| Richard Price | 2015 |
| Eve Rose | 2015 |
| Jon Rosling | 2015 |
| Robert Taylor | 2015 |
| Taiba Yasseen | 2015 |
Note*: Currently suspended from the Labour Party.
If readers have views on the suitability of any of these, as candidates for next May’s ‘all out’ local government elections, please leave them as comments, or email Rik directly, thanks.
See also: https://rotherhampolitics.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/replacements-required/
Rotherham Politics 
Whilst in no way detracting from the decades of service and dedication to their community there must be an issue of possible stagnation within a local authority.
Perhaps a good rule would be that no elected member can be in office for more than two consecutive terms, with a gaps of at least term before being eligible for re-election.
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Yu are having a laugh “decades of dedication and service” . A lot of them have presided over the ruin of this town and have not listened to the concerns of the populace. I am beginning to believe that councils should not be run on a party political basis but adopt a non political individual approach when appealing for the public vote. Having said that I will be voting UKIP at the next election.
Richard Allen
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What, and stop their lucrative income. Not one of these is capable of earning the amount of money they are paid for being Rotherham Councillors!
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