I agree Simone, the one I saw was horrifically. It was a motion on the bedroom tax where a Reddish councillor raised the issue of the bedroom tax, he went on for about 1/2 hr how his constituent was being hard done by re. The bedroom tax, how their life was going to be made intolloerble and for good measure bought the person along. It was pointed out that he was wrong and should have told his constituent of the funding for genuine cases, the answer took 1/2 min. It wasn't really anything to do with local politics but the guy just wanted to get airtime and was happy to use a vulnerable person to get his profile up. It backfired, he looked an idiot but managed to puf his constituent through the wringer.
I really don't think many are in it for the right reasons.