Local Elections

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Who will you be voting for ?

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Ardross

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For the first time in my life I am considering not voting Labour today - this Govt deserves a very bloody nose .

The downside is that when the Lib Dems ran my local council for about 2 years they were absolutely atrocious.

I think i might vote Green .
 
yes
Green is great.
they have been doing quite well in Germany recently........



another good option would be a populist party in the line of Evo Morales, that is in fashion nowdays.
 
Brilliant - didn't even know there were any going on, such is the general malaise around here! Haven't seen a single 'Vote For ... ' poster or flyer here. I did see one outside Lingfield urging people to vote for a Linda Bangs. At first I thought they were promoting their own Edenbridge Amateur Dramatic Society's first venture into porn.
 
Originally posted by krizon@May 4 2006, 10:36 AM
Brilliant - didn't even know there were any going on, such is the general malaise around here!
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Unsurprising - there are not local elections everywhere, these things are staggered. Almost a quarter of the council seats in England - 4,361 out of a total of 19,579 in 176 authorities are being voted on, including every borough council seat in London. Twenty-three million people are entitled to vote today.
 
Ah, thank you for that, Brian - we usually have the Greens out in force around here, and I have voted for them, too, having given up on the Lib Dems. We have a ghastly Labour council which has been as inconsistent over Planning Applications as it has over its attempts to collect rubbish effectively, and to implement any of its election vows of cleaning the city up, getting rid of graffitti, etc.

We had excellent community recycling bins for glass, paper, and shoes, which have now disappeared because a smart new office/restaurant/flats building went up opposite to them. But we are now being forced to BUY our own for our flats instead. Forcing blocks of flats to buy them from their 'services' dept. is an excellent earner for them, with each recycling bin costing around £300. Providing communal ones for a well-littered city doesn't make them that sort of money. They are the antithesis of green, with the new Library all glass and concrete, and not a shrub or tree in sight.
 
I made my pitiful stand and scribbled on the bottom of my ballot paper "None of the above."
 
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