The red wall

[cashman]

i have wiped better than Bercow off the bottom of my shoes.

 

[Guinness]

There are some really hard working local councillors on both sides,.. it's an absolute travesty that someone who is unelected can (allegedly)..offer chairmanship seats (who have double votes) to someone with an opposite political persuasion...

I guess this evidences why we have some really dross councillors (at least two lost seats this time), why we have wives, partners, brothers, aunts and second cousins etc standing year after year.

Politics is one of the few jobs that does not ask if you have a relative working for them

 

[monkey hanger]

There are some really hard working local councillors on both sides,..

yes, i have known quite a number of them. the problem is that many in the past have not seeked re election after their time on the council is up. they just had enough of all the stuff that went on behind the scenes and did not want to become part of it.

 

[Margaret Pilkington]

the above is a reason to take party politics out of local government. no matter what party that guy followed it did not make his work for the local community any better or worse. voting someone else in because of his party activists and parliamentary MP,s is totally rediculous.

If you were to look back over the many and varied political posts on this forum, you will find that I have said this many times.
Party politics in local government is not only unhelpful, it deters some people from voting.
But local politics is often the seed ground for those who have ‘national’ ambitions
Like our one time MP Graham Jones....that turned out well for us didn’t it?

 

[Jimmy Clitheroe]

https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/25/nadi...ng-several-weeks-off-work-with-ptsd-14640457/

..... the whole lot are no longer fit for purpose.

...... be thankful for nuclear weapons because this generation wouldn't stand a cat in a furnace's chance against the Russian or Chinese (or even North Korean) infant school let alone a proper army.

 

[DaveinGermany]

PTSD, really? Political Trougher Suffer Disappointment is what she's "Got", pathetic! Have a word with services personell who've been in a war zone where people are physically trying to kill them with IED's, bombs, bullets & not just hurty words & online death threats.


Face other peoples reality & I might just have some sympathy, but until then she's just another whiny snowflake who thinks she's being picked on & hard done to.