Perhaps since he has put the traffic stats into public debate somebody should ask for anonymized logs to be made available so his claims can be verified. Particularly the hit count and visitor log for the page on the website for the mayor consultation.

In this city of a million people, how many have more pressing individual day-to-day concerns than the ones you have about the council? I don't know – I've not asked them, but fear it's a fairly high percentage.

So it's not “absolute shite” at all, although maybe it is a sad indictment of public engagement with the corridors of power. However, the council can't take all the blame for that – I vote for my local councillor and hope they do a good job at representing local views….it's what they're for!