Good Luck to All our Candidates in Today's Elections
I haven't had the chance to blog this week until now because I have been campaigning in the elections. After canvassing on a visit to Crewe on Friday, I was in Leicester on Saturday and on Monday took a campaign team to canvass for Sue Lent's campaign in Cardiff central for the Welsh Assembly elections. On Tuesday I was in Liverpool at the front of the May Day march.
I was born in Liverpool and my Dad was a Liverpool docker so it was good to be in the city meeting some of the retired dockers. I actually met a few people who lived down our street.
I am always impressed by the hard work our candidates put in on the ground. It is often frustrating that local candidates are not judged on their performance locally but on people's reaction to national politics. The same can apply to the Scottish and Welsh elections.
I wish all our candidates success in today's elections. It is absolutely critical that we especially halt any rise in support for the BNP. Retaining control in Scotland and Wales is essential if we are maintain the momentum of progressive politics. It is the same in local government. Last year the Tories took majority control in my local council of Hillingdon even though we held virtually all of the seats in my own constituency. The best example of what Tory control means in practice is that this month the Tory leader awarded himself a rise in his allowance to £66,000 pa and at the same time announced the closure of our outward bound youth centre on costs grounds.
So good luck to all our candidates in today's elections.
I was born in Liverpool and my Dad was a Liverpool docker so it was good to be in the city meeting some of the retired dockers. I actually met a few people who lived down our street.
I am always impressed by the hard work our candidates put in on the ground. It is often frustrating that local candidates are not judged on their performance locally but on people's reaction to national politics. The same can apply to the Scottish and Welsh elections.
I wish all our candidates success in today's elections. It is absolutely critical that we especially halt any rise in support for the BNP. Retaining control in Scotland and Wales is essential if we are maintain the momentum of progressive politics. It is the same in local government. Last year the Tories took majority control in my local council of Hillingdon even though we held virtually all of the seats in my own constituency. The best example of what Tory control means in practice is that this month the Tory leader awarded himself a rise in his allowance to £66,000 pa and at the same time announced the closure of our outward bound youth centre on costs grounds.
So good luck to all our candidates in today's elections.
posted by John at 5:44 PM
2 Comments:
the same Tory leader that John refers to bullied one of the ex-Labour councillors,(one of the ones who was voted out through no fault of his own due to New Labour's failures), at school.
We may have gained a seat in Wyc but they are I think they are all neck adn neck there even the incumbents.
I've just seen John interviewes with Meacher by Dimbleby on the election coverage. I've watched it all as couldn't out to GOTV due to family in the end. The presenters keep refering to the left leadership challenge as an "attempt" rather than a serioud challenge it seemed to me and Nick Robison said McConnell instead of McDonnell! ( I tried and tried to email their blog to correct this but it would't accept it).
Dimbleby didn't seem to take John serioulsy enough - he will get a shock when we get on ballot paper!
got an intersting reply from acetain MP who was abit in two camps yesterday - keep lobbying your MPs as I didn'tthink Meacher sounded quite congident and John Hutton was it ir was it Will I forget needs to eb updated on modern socialism urgently
He did say 'McConnell' but did you hear the Lib Dem MP that was on the show? She actually said 'sex' instead of 'seven' but she was quick to change it and i was surprisingly alert to catch it..... wonder what was on her mind!
Well onto ground breaking election news... :)
I've just checked the text on TV and i believe Labour held my local council, but they were pushed close by the Derwentside Independents (LAB 29 (-11) OTH 24 (+10) ).
No councillors were elected for my ward, and looking on the web it was surprising how little of the vote they got as they were out campaigning by far the most frequent, posted the most leaflets, PA systems etc etc, but Labour did fairly well considering in other wards. We ended up with two Independents and one Lib Dem candidate.
JC
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