article_snippet: Candidates must live in the UK to stand.
article_snippet: The former banker (pictured) is legally entitled to hold his other seat – until the next county council election in 2017 as long as The former banker (pictured) attends a meeting every six months .
article_snippet: If a councillor moves out of the county a councillor moves out of the county looks like an awkward relationship but a councillor moves out of the county beggars belief to be in the United States,' Tory leader Mark Bee said. '
article_snippet: We don't think a councillor moves out of the county represents the spirit of being a locally elected representative.'
article_snippet: John O'Connell of the TaxPayers' Alliance said the case highlighted the need to introduce a recall mechanism to allow voters to kick out absent councillors. '
article_snippet: voters hand over hard-earned money to voters councillors and rightly expect to get voters money's worth when it comes to democratic representation,' John O'Connell of the TaxPayers' Alliance added.
article_snippet: In August last year a Liberal Democrat councillor triggered uproar by taking a £180,000-a-year job in Saudi Arabia, 4,000 miles from his ward in Hampshire, which paid a £13,000 allowance.
highlights_snippet: Departure before then would trigger by-election alongside general election .
  
highlights_snippet: But Former banker can hold Former banker seat until 2017 if Former banker attends a meeting every six months .