Local elections

[Arriba]

Well they are this thursday and votes are with Labour this time.
The Blu adminstration needs ousting imo. Building on green spaces,cuts in services and the wifi fiasco the main reasons for me.

[4D]

Don't you always vote Labour, comrade arriba? 

[Arriba]

Don't you always vote Labour, comrade arriba? 

Nope not always. Last general election i voted Lib dem and have voted green-lib dem in the locals previously.

[4D]

Nope not always. Last general election i voted Lib dem and have voted green-lib dem in the locals previously.

Khaki party?

[LucienSanchez]

I will have the pleasure of voting for anyone but Bluh since he has moved to my Old Town ward. He's shifted from Dorcan to here as it's his home ward (it isn't, he lives in Clifton Street which is Eastcott) as it is probably far likely that he'll get in here than anywhere else. Only problem is, there are loads of candidates, so protest votes are likely to be spread, meaning he gets in again.

[ronnie21]

I will have the pleasure of voting for anyone but Bluh since he has moved to my Old Town ward. He's shifted from Dorcan to here as it's his home ward (it isn't, he lives in Clifton Street which is Eastcott) as it is probably far likely that he'll get in here than anywhere else. Only problem is, there are loads of candidates, so protest votes are likely to be spread, meaning he gets in again.

I think Bluh might just struggle with the feeling in that area about the Croft school fiasco.  He and his colleagues have made a lot of strange decisions besides this, the wi-fi project which has cost the town almost half a million, buying back some old stones just to leave them in storage at Wroughton, the corrugated iron water feature which is just plain awful and I could go on about releasing a lot of green space to builders etc.  Why did he not stand in Eastcott (his home ward),  at least his partner could have voted for him, unless he was upset with what was going on as well?

[sheepshagger]

Hmmmm - trouble is 20 years of the last local Labour council hardly did a lot for Swindon did it ??!?!

In the end they almost walked away knowing what a fuck up they had made

Don't get me wrong - Bluh is a complete tool as well - so this one is very difficult

A current tool or a past tool - or a new tool altogether ?

[pauld]

Doesn't just have to be a straight choice between the old and the new, sheepshagger. Kareen Boyd, who was part of the anti-Croft school campaign and led the way in uncovering a lot of the incompetence and arrogance surrounding that decision, is the "Arab Spring" candidate in Old Town and it would VERY much upset Mr Bluh et al if he were to be unseated by her.

Think yourself lucky - after they made themselves virtually unelectable in Old Town, we've had Bawden and Foley dumped on us in Lawn and Chiseldon. Talk about "a pig in a blue rosette"...

[sheepshagger]

Ha Ha - you can keep 'em Paul !!

Thing is I am one of the minority that thinks Croft is a great place for a school - so Kareen won't be getting my vote either

[Batch]

Our local councillors sent a leaflet out telling us how caring they are and that they'd listen to our concerns regarding a gravel bin needed at the top of the road in winter. Needless to say they got the name of the road wrong.

Its this kind of shodiness that will see my protest vote go to the fittest female independent or the one with the stupidest name/ campaign cause.

[Ardiles]

For the first time in years, I think I'm not going to bother.  Completely turned off by politics in general at the moment...which is very unlike me.  Hope it doesn't last.  There is also the problem that, around my way, they could stick a blue rosette on Ian Huntley's lapel and put him up for election - and he'd get in without a problem.  All seems a little pointless, really.

EDIT:  Having just read Batch's post, I have changed my mind.  I also will now be scouring election manifestos with a lecherous eye.

[leefer]

Hmmmm - trouble is 20 years of the last local Labour council hardly did a lot for Swindon did it ??!?!

In the end they almost walked away knowing what a fuck up they had made

Don't get me wrong - Bluh is a complete tool as well - so this one is very difficult

A current tool or a past tool - or a new tool altogether ?

Who needs tools.....will not be voting i dont think.
I have sadly come to the connection that a vote on your principles means nothing.
If i do vote it will be blue.....at least they dont pretend to be for the working man...unlike red.
Yellows and greens are a bit to wishy washy for my way of thinking.

[Reg Smeeton]

Think yourself lucky - after they made themselves virtually unelectable in Old Town, we've had Bawden and Foley dumped on us in Lawn and Chiseldon. Talk about "a pig in a blue rosette"...

Years ago we had a very fine celebratory night when we (Labour) dumped Bawden out of Eastcott...at the time I thought that would be the last we see of the old bugger...but he simply ousted the Tory councillor up for re-election in Lawn, (now Old Town) by whatever the Tories do to pick a candidate. Presumably something similar is happening here.

Ardiles/Batch finding semi decent birds in politics is a bit of a long shot....I've an eye on Stella Creasy, MP (Lab) for Walthamstow...quite pretty, if a little lumpy...

[url width=460 height=276]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/7/30/1248943285618/Stella-Creasy-Labour-parl-001.jpg[/url]

Be interesting to see how far she goes up the greasy pole...

[Batch]

Ardiles/Batch finding semi decent birds in politics is a bit of a long shot....

You are not wrong, the best one is a Tory though

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindon_advertiser_local_elections_2012/ward/273/3949/

I may just not bother

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Not bothering this time. Politics is a shambles in this country at the moment. They are all useless. Dont waste your time voting.