Local Elections on Thursday.

jambutty · 02-05-2007, 22:00

Are you going to vote?

I am and I have a choice of four candidates to choose from. Just for a change I’ve had about a dozen leaflets from the usual three parties all clammering for my vote. No personal call though.

I got one flyer from the Tories, 3 from the Labour lot and 5 from the Liberals. Plus a new local party called the Darwen Party who gave me three well presented leaflets that outlined their manifesto.

shakermaker · 02-05-2007, 22:11

I'll be voting for the first time this Thursday.

One question - why do these leaflets never state what the candidate wants to actually DO?!

Are they backing themselves up for the future when people complain?
"Well, I never said I'd do anything!"

They all just criticise the others and plaster their ugly mugs all over the place.

I think eany-meany-miney-mo will be my method of selection on Thursday.

WillowTheWhisp · 02-05-2007, 22:26

Has anyone heard the interviews with Tony Blair and other leaders on Radio Blackburn? Why can't they encourage people to view local politics as exactly that? It's nothing to do with the government in Westminster. It's what your local candidate will do for you. In my case it's more about who I'm not voting for than who I am voting for though.

shillelagh · 02-05-2007, 22:34

I will be voting and i will be running round like an idiot as usual tomorrow and friday.

grannyclaret · 02-05-2007, 22:40

I will vote.....

SPUGGIE J · 02-05-2007, 22:46

Is your voting going to be a s bad as this;

ANNE · 02-05-2007, 23:00

I WONT be voting. They are ALL the same.

shillelagh · 03-05-2007, 00:58

I always got told to vote because its a vote wasted if you dont and also even if you vote for the person who doesnt get in then you still have the right to complain about them. If you dont vote you havent got the right to moan about the councillor that does get in because you didnt vote it could have been your vote that was the difference between someone getting in or not.

entwisi · 03-05-2007, 06:34

I'm with Jen, If you don't vote then don't come on wingeing about ANYTHING to do with local politics or goverment as you threw away your right when you couldn't be bothered to vote.

lancsdave · 03-05-2007, 06:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by entwisi

I'm with Jen, If you don't vote then don't come on wingeing about ANYTHING to do with local politics or goverment as you threw away your right when you couldn't be bothered to vote.

If you abstain from voting because you are sick of hearing year after year, decade after decade the same rubbish about what they are going to do and never deliver I think you have every right to whinge

flashy · 03-05-2007, 07:08

i went down and voted half an hour ago, the concervatives round here havent put a candidate in this year, so we had Labour, BNP and Lib Dems

Gayle · 03-05-2007, 07:53

I won't be voting ths year!

But only because my ward is not up for election. Would do if I could.

flashy · 03-05-2007, 07:57

ok i cant spell .....conservative

andrewb · 03-05-2007, 08:01

I'll be voting in an hour or so if I can make it in time before college!

I've received leaflets from the Conservatives, Labour and Greens and can't say i've had the same problem as you Shakermaker

garinda · 03-05-2007, 09:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gayle

I won't be voting ths year!

But only because my ward is not up for election. Would do if I could.

Snap.....