Let's Get Political!

[Bob's Orange]

I thought there was about a dozen standing. Got to be someone's whose ideas chime  surely?

Didn't the news come out recently that the Green candidate is being monitored by GCHQ and M15, that would get my vote.

There is a dozen. You've got the usual wackjobs (BNP, Britain First, Cannabis is safer than alcohol, One Love Party, Women's Equality Party, and George Galloway's Respect party) but in reality it's going to be between Goldsmith (Tory) and Khan (Labour). Interestingly the more the opposition play the Islamic Extremist card on Khan, the more popular he seems to get.

[sonicyouth]

I note Sonic got a mention on the Adver's election live blog...

I think you have me confused with Yeovil.

I'll be voting for Khan if only to stop Goldsmith.

[jayohaitchenn]

I'm voting Labour in South Swindon because they've promised to cancel the Tory plan to sell off Lydiard House.

[Nemo]

I think you have me confused with Yeovil.

I'll be voting for Khan if only to stop Goldsmith.

So I have, turns out the local elections aren't on in Norway...

[Audrey]

Local councils should all be non-political with an independent elected mayor.

The pool of good quality people to run things is so small that to dilute it even further by restricting it to members of a political party seems ridiculous.

[Costanza]

I have the added pleasure of voting for a mayor. A small number of stupid Bristolians (27% turn out) being smug enough to think we needed a similar set up to London.

I didn't vote for our current mayor in 2012 and after almost 4 years, he's done nothing to earn my vote in 2016.

[Audrey]

I'm voting Labour in South Swindon because they've promised to cancel the Tory plan to sell off Lydiard House.

Mike Bowden, who appeared in another thread on here, is involved in trying to stave off the sale.

[Reg Smeeton]

Mike Bowden, who appeared in another thread on here, is involved in trying to stave off the sale.

You may be mixing Mr Whippy up with....Mike Bawden, veteran Tory now ex councillor

[Ardiles]

I have the added pleasure of voting for a mayor. A small number of stupid Bristolians (27% turn out) being smug enough to think we needed a similar set up to London.

I didn't vote for our current mayor in 2012 and after almost 4 years, he's done nothing to earn my vote in 2016.

A friend of mine has been actively campaigning for Marvin for months.  The incumbent certainly seems a 'Marmite' candidate.

[Audrey]

You may be mixing Mr Whippy up with....Mike Bawden, veteran Tory now ex councillor

No. I've met Mike Bowden a couple of times recently and he's definitely involved with Save Lydiard Park.

Unfortunately, I have also had dealings with Mike Bawden in the past. The cunt did me for £7000.

[Costanza]

A friend of mine has been actively campaigning for Marvin for months.  The incumbent certainly seems a 'Marmite' candidate.

Lots of people like George Ferguson. However, lots of people will come out to vote against him.

Still wouldn't surprise me with Ferguson pips Marv.

[Samdy Gray]

I'm voting Labour in South Swindon because they've promised to cancel the Tory plan to sell off Lydiard House.

I voted Labour today purely because their candidate was the only one that had apparently bothered to publish his pledges about local issues (and I agreed with them) and has been canvassing in the area.

I couldn't find anything from the Tory or Lib Dem candidates apart from a very brief paragraph in the Advertiser and I'm not voting for them if I don't know what they stand for.

[Simon Pieman]

I voted for Pajak, who also happens to live in my ward and was unsurprised to see he was the only candidate at the polling station when I turned up at 7:20 this morning.

[Ardiles]

The Evening Standard is reporting that Sadiq Khan will win in London.

I'd cringe with embarrassment, to tell the truth, if Goldsmith was elected.  Already enough entitled, Old Etonians in a positions of influence.

[ronnie21]

I have not voted at all today, firstly the police commissioner position should not be a political one as it is now in Wiltshire.  I did not vote in the local elections as only one candidate bothered to knock on my door and that was the tory (he was with our mp Justin Tomlinson - minister for Wonga) and I politely told him I would not be voting for anybody - present day Labour are unelectable in my opinion and the tory would never get my vote.  The local labour candidate did push a very cheaply produced flyer through the door but that was not enough to convince me.  The Minister for Wonga did tell me he was voting OUT in the EU referendum - so we did agree on something!!!