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Local Elections 2018

Not seen a single poster around here, had a leaflet from both the Tories & LibDems, I have no idea if Labour, Greens & UKIP are fielding candidates this time.

It's all a bit pointless when the Tories will get over 50% vote share anyway, it's just a question of if I can be arsed on the day & go and make a protest vote.
 
If I ever got one I'd try and entice them in for a cup of tea and a chat. A looooong chat.
I've always wanted a canvasser, so I can properly grill them. Never, ever had one, of any alignment.

Absolutely nothing in the way of placards (or even literature) here, I presume Labour think it's such a safe seat it's not worth bothering with. But where I was living in Manchester must have been even safer and while there weren't placards I got plenty of literature from Labour.

On the other hand my mum (who lives in the Pudsey marginal seat and a Con/LD ward) has had, for the first time ever, Labour canvassers (and nothing from the LD or Con).
 
It's hard to know what I want. I suppose in a strange way if Labour do well at the locals it might make an early general election less likely which will actually prolong the suffering of people being fucked over by the Tory government nationally.
 
No posters, leaflets or anything here (Manchester).

The council website says that there are 3 labour, 3 libdems, 3 vermin and 1 green candidates. Most of them don't even live in the ward. It's a safe bet that the vermin won't get anywhere.
 
'My top priority will be kicking the anti-Semites out of Labour...and replacing them with voluptuous young women to assist me in my fight against the totalitarian state that is Aberdeen Council. I will never invite Donald Trump for a state visit, especially not to the visit the Queen, but I will invite Condoleezza Rice'

Lol
 
not quite sure what the labour approach is this time round. seems to be quite a lot of activity on the momentum wing looking to 'unseat' existing tory councils - distinct opposite of the approach last year when the party was very much on the defensive to try and hold on to seats in the expected tory landslide.

could backfire if they are seen as taking existing labour areas too much for granted.
 
It's a far fetched hope but me and dialectician were discussing the other day how we want Peter Dow to be the head of Labour Party as well.
I was reading Dow's blog yesterday. He never fails to amaze.
Have a read of his most recent court case, continuing to sexpest a councillor in an apology letter.:

To: Catriona MacKenzie
From: Peter Dow
Date: 29 April 2017 at 11:45
Subject: Peter Dow wants to meet Catriona Mackenzie for Torry & Ferryhill
but I didn't get any reply from Catriona MacKenzie or from anyone on her behalf.
I assumed then that, sadly, Catriona MacKenzie was not interested in meeting me, or she had better things to do, but I will copy this email to her in case, now, as my local elected councillor, Councillor Catriona MacKenzie does now want to meet me in which case I, of course, invite Councillor MacKenzie around to visit me at my home at Ground Floor Right, 21 Hollybank Place, Aberdeen at whatever time is convenient for her, though if she wants me shaved, showered and presentable for her then she had better give me some notice of when she intends visiting me.
It would be perfectly fine and expected if when visiting me Councillor Catriona MacKenzie wishes to visit me accompanied by any number of other women (women only please), whether women SNP party colleagues, women police officers or whichever other women Councillor Catriona MacKenzie feels she would like to accompany her for reasons of ensuring her personal security and to ensure that I was perfectly well behaved as a gentleman should always be with the ladies.
In terms of which women police officers Catriona could invite to accompany her to visit me, I might I suggest that Councillor MacKenzie might ask Detective Constable (which was her police rank in 2014 though she have been promoted since or she may have left the employment of Police Scotland altogether, I simply do not know, not having heard from her again) Nicola McGlashan.
I was pleased to receive a visit to my home from DC Nicola McGlashan in July 2014 when she was accompanied by a number of male police colleagues for a police raid of my flat so whilst the circumstances were generally somewhat stressful for me, DC Nicola McGlashan's presence made the whole event more tolerable for me.
I wish to thank DC Nicola McGashan once again for adding her female touch to the proceedings of that police raid and my arrest, so I will copy this email to what I assume to be her email address, but of that I am not sure either.
Whether by accident or design, at one point during the police raid, I was standing in handcuffs in my front room before DC Nicola McGlashan and her male police colleagues without any trousers or underpants on, which in retrospect amuses me somewhat.
I would very much like another opportunity for the thrill to be partially undressed again before DC Nicola McGlashan and indeed before as many other women police officers as would like to visit me. I do like the ladies very much indeed but I don't get out much and sadly have precious few opportunities to meet ladies, which can be a source of some frustration for me I must confess.
I do hope it is not inappropriate to suggest that if Councillor Catriona MacKenzie would like to see me half-naked or indeed fully naked at my home then I surely would oblige her at her convenience?
Rest assured that I am not about to undress without being invited to do so simply because I meet Councillor Catriona MacKenzie or any other woman. I do not have any record of getting arrested, charged and convicted for being naked in public and neither do I wish to risk such arrest.
My point is that if the ladies, women police officers, councillors, whomsoever, wish to see me undressed in the privacy of my own home then all they have to do is to ask and I will happily oblige.
However, I would respectfully suggest to all such fine ladies, be they women police officers or women councillors, that there is no need to bring any male police officers with you at all because I am a gentleman and my love is very much for the ladies only.
Yours sincerely,
(Alastair) Peter Dow
Bachelor of Science with Honours
Ground Right Flat
21 Hollybank Place
Aberdeen
AB11 6XR
Tel. 01224 583906 (landline)
If telephoning on my landline always leave a message
Tel. 07449 993 678 (smartphone)
Tel. 078560 23313 (mobile)
Science and Politics http://scot.tk
 
(Unrelated to the elections, saw someone selling papers today. New one on me -- Proletarian -- though he was near the SWP's usual paper sale spot.)
 
We have had Green Party leaflets, Tory and Liberal, (we still have a Liberal party as well as the LD's). Labour never canvass where I live because most people own their own homes, preferring to focus only on social housing estates. This is one reason why they never control the council. I think, IMHO, that Labour will fall back in the polls overall based on national perceptions of the leaders.
 
We have had Green Party leaflets, Tory and Liberal, (we still have a Liberal party as well as the LD's).
Liverpool area by any chance? Steve Radford's party? I think that is the only area where they operate now?

Are they any good?
 
Liverpool area by any chance? Steve Radford's party? I think that is the only area where they operate now?

Are they any good?

They're standing a candidate here.

The Liberal Party is proud to announce the distribution of candidates in May’s local elections.

The party will be fielding a total of 19 candidates in Liverpool, as well as the Timperley and Hale Central Ward’s of Trafford, Dogsthorpe in Peterborough, Tyseley & Hay Mills in Birmingham and Norcot in Reading.

Yuk.
 
Liverpool area by any chance? Steve Radford's party? I think that is the only area where they operate now?

Are they any good?
Peterborough. They are very well intentioned but spend a lot of energy trying to distinguish themselves from the Lib Dems.
 
Peterborough. They are very well intentioned but spend a lot of energy trying to distinguish themselves from the Lib Dems.

So I see from the top of their home page...

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Real Liberals
(not the LibDems)
Fighting for Liberalism
 
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