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Local Elections 2018

Saw the Labour Party out and about across the border in the leafy neighbouring Wokingham ward (which I think they hold as their only seat on the council).

Seen nothing else new anywhere. Greens still dominant in my ward.

Nobody talking about the elections elsewhere. Lots of talk about cuts to local services though. Across the country as I've been out and about.
 
I did my paper round this weekend. Solid Labour, inner-city seat, a couple of streets for edgy professionals. I saw one Green poster, but that is actually less then usual, about a dozen Labour ones.

Then I went 'campaigning' with Dan Jarvis today. God, but he tries very hard to be the blandest man alive.
 
Looking over my candidate list, I've ruled out the UKIP guy, everyone with a beard, the big two and I'm pretty much left with a Green who works for a local charity. Seems worthy of a vote.
 
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bemused said:
Looking over my candidate list, I've ruled out the UKIP guy, everyone with a beard, the big two and I'm pretty much left with a Green who works for a local charity. Seems worthy of a vote.
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I would say there are better, more considered ways of deciding how you cast your vote, myself.....
 
Streathamite said:
I would say there are better, more considered ways of deciding how you cast your vote, myself.....
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It is considered. I don't see the point of voting for UKIP. Neither the Tory or local Labour folks provide any inspiration. That leaves me with two choices and the Greens are much more appealing to me.
 
chilango said:
Saw the Labour Party out and about across the border in the leafy neighbouring Wokingham ward (which I think they hold as their only seat on the council).
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i think labour are trying to double or triple their representation on wokingham council. not that long ago, they couldn't get candidates in all wards, and local activists were encouraged to go and help in reading.

i do wonder if labour have set up an own goal or two - the targeting of tory flagship councils like wandsworth and westminster (which have been tory since the current boroughs were established over 50 years ago) could be a bit over-ambitious, and not quite managing this could easily be spun by the tories as a victory of sorts...
 
Theres not even been a polling card through so I turned to the web to look and there is nothing, rushden are having a council one on the day but here, nothing. I haven't even noticed any signs except nick scrimshaws window poster (I'm not a stalker, he's on one of my dog routes). Pretty sure thats up all year as he's a councillor.

Its the no polling card that makes me feel for certain its not on in kettering, we always get one. Excellent roach.
 
bemused said:
It is considered. I don't see the point of voting for UKIP. Neither the Tory or local Labour folks provide any inspiration. That leaves me with two choices and the Greens are much more appealing to me.
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OK, that's fair enough. Apologies if I misread you.
But why - out of curiosity - the prejudice against those amongst us with, umm, facial furnishings?
 
I reckon Labour won’t meet expectations (which have been deliberately overstated in some quarters) triggering another round of challenges to the leadership and more division/press bullshit. Tories, wounded, sneak quietly away and enjoy the focus being elsewhere.
 
Dogsauce said:
I reckon Labour won’t meet expectations (which have been deliberately overstated in some quarters) triggering another round of challenges to the leadership and more division/press bullshit. Tories, wounded, sneak quietly away and enjoy the focus being elsewhere.
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I'm curious about why there's an expectation of a tory bloodbath, as (outside london) it doesn't seem to be reflected in the polls - although Westminster voting intention doesn't necessarily map onto local voting intention I guess.
 
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killer b said:
I'm curious about why there's an expectation of a tory bloodbath, as (outside london) it doesn't seem to be reflected in the polls - although Westminster voting intention doesn't necessarily map onto local voting intention I guess.
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Political betting blog and the betting markets are moving away from the more extreme predictions of Tory bloodbaths in places like Westminster and Kensington. They are still calling Wandsworth a toss up though.
 
Yeah, the London bloodbath has been dialled down since the new QMU poll last week (this can only be to Labour's benefit IMO).

I guess the councils being contested are mainly in cities, which would favour Labour beyond national polling.
 
For example you can only get 1.07 on a Tory hold in Kensington and Chelsea. 1.18 on Westminster. The latter is possibly still worth backing if you've got the cash to risk.
 
I don't think it's that interesting. It's a pub-bore activity that has been proved pretty pointless by most recent significant elections / votes.
 
killer b said:
I don't think it's that interesting. It's a pub-bore activity that has been proved pretty pointless by most recent significant elections / votes.
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Is that code for "I recently lost a lot of money on the Brexit vote/Trump election and I'm still a wee bit sore"? :D
 
It'll be interesting to see what the turnout is... I imagine even by the standards of local elections it will be very low. Disenchanted Tory voters.. ditto Labour voters. I foresee the results being on the bland side... which isn't good enough for Labour.
 
killer b said:
Yeah, the London bloodbath has been dialled down since the new QMU poll last week (this can only be to Labour's benefit IMO).

I guess the councils being contested are mainly in cities, which would favour Labour beyond national polling.
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The fact that all seats are up in a lot (all?) of places might work against independents and smaller parties, which combined with it mostly being cities may help Labour?
 
Yes Newcastle is all out.

I know one of the labour councillors through work, and he was saying that because of prep for GDPR the local Labour Party have had to get rid of some of the names and addresses they've collected previously, and then candidates have been given a very strange looking electoral register with possibly some data missing because of the boundary changes - and from what I can guess our entire estate has been left off from it as no leaflets, door knocks, nothing from anyone as of yet - or maybe none of them can be bothered about us, who knows.

Also TUSC is supposedly standing in our ward, but no-one's seen or heard from them - enough people hate the Labour council leader who's standing in our ward enough that they would get some votes (while not putting Labour in any danger) if they made themselves known - I know a few people who've already spoiled their postal ballot paper (because "fuck the lot of them, they're all eating out of the same trough and all making cuts") who might have been persuaded to vote for them. Their loss i suppose, elections aren't something I would ever put energy into, but just seems utterly pointless someone standing then not bothering to do anything.
 
only communication here (wokingham) so far is from the incumbent lib-dem.

and tory advert wrap round the local paper last weekend.

lib dem here is a long standing councillor, good on the local stuff. local ward is tory / lib dem marginal - usually two of one, one of the other.

meh

ETA - don't think she has a beard

:p
 
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