BS: Local Council Elections

Subject: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 02:05 PM

Pleased to have cast my postal vote in favour of out Conservative candidates!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 02:17 PM

Nah, not 'til next year. It's supposed to be non-partisan.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 02:20 PM

"in favour of out Conservative candidates!!!"

finally Bonz... we're on the same side..!!!!

I'm very eager to get the tories out as welll...

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 02:49 PM

Damned iphone!!

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Stanron
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 04:49 PM

Voting is on Thursday the 4th of May here in Greater Mancs. I've no idea of for whom I may vote. There are lefty voters on this forum who complain about living in Tory areas. I am a Tory living in the depths of the Loony Left dominated Manchester. I may well vote. I know I will never vote for a winner. There is no tactical vote option.

The last Conservative candidate on my ballot paper had a London address. Not much of a commitment to my area.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 05:23 PM

I used to live in Salford, Stanron, and although I am a Labour supporter I can see the flaws with the one party system they have there. Without effective opposition the council ride roughshod over everything and everyone. You have my commiserations, even if you are supporting the wrong side ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 05:45 PM

That is exactly what we have had in Croydon for the last 4 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Stanron
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 06:03 PM

Of course, thinking of this in terms of right sides and wrong sides is evidence of blurred political vision. All political views have precepts. If the precepts differ the views differ. Your precepts differ from mine. I am quite happy to live with this.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 08:17 PM

Voting out the Tories sounds like an excellent move on your part, bonzo!

Though I don't think national politics should necessarily be reflected in local terms. There are even some Tory councillors who have fought hard to protect their communities from being damaged by governmen policies, even under Tory governments.

And there are plenty of local councillors in all parties whom no one should vote for, even holding their nose. (And the same goes for national politics of course.)

But personally I would never resort to voting by post unless I was confined to my sickbed.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 01:43 AM

Stanron, did you not see the smiley after the 'wrong side' remark or can you just not resist the opportunity to say someone who votes in a different way to you has 'blurred' political vision?

Nothing wrong with my political vision but maybe your conception of how to work together and start meaningful political discussions needs a little work.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 02:34 AM

Damned I phone, It's a poor workman who blames his tools Bonzo, my guess it was a freudian slip.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 03:01 AM

No, my iphone I'm afraid, killing time waiting for my wife to assemble her evening medication after dinner! We had been watching the emergency debate on the Syria bombing - very interesting.........................but I'll give way to my learned friend!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 11:15 AM

Lots of harmless words like that where one letter wrong can be highly embarrassing, because the wrong words reads sort of plausibly, but misleadingly so. Not, now and nor, for example. Brutish Empire. I remember a friend putting out a poster for an event she had organised, promising that a group of childminders would be putting on a pubic display.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 11:29 AM

I once published a report describing six months work where in the management summary the word 'now' was mistyped as 'not' thus neatly reversing the entire findings.

I always remember that when politicians say 'this report is 98% the same as the previous version.'

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 12:28 PM

I am denied the opportunity of voting against the Conservative candidates as my local authority is not up for reelection this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 12:49 PM

Our tory MP seems to keep a relatively low public media profile...

Unlike another one further up across the nation in East Somerset...

Two very different examples, but anything tory will get voted in around here...

Probably even a Labour candidate with a blue rosette sellotaped over his/her red one...

hmmmmmm...???

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 29 Apr 18 - 05:25 AM

So you have voted for a party that has the audacity to score cheap points in constricting labour council for applying TORY social care precepts after 8 successive years of freezing council tax in spite of £147 million per year cuts in funding. A party who at the same time wants council tax payers to pay for garden waste removal fo rthe most wealthy who are too lazy to do composting. But hay, it doesn't matter to Tories if vulnerable people die in isolation, or if vulnerable children are murdered, as long as the important job of removing garden waste for free takes priority. By the may which political party is in charge of tory led Northamptonshire council, the first council to go bust?

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 29 Apr 18 - 07:24 AM

You sound like a real bundle of fun!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Local Council Elections
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Apr 18 - 05:53 PM

There are plenty of Labour councillors voted in who'd be more honest if they wore blue rosettes. Does it ever apply the other way round?