Local Elections 2022

[steeplejack]

Well, there's council elections on the 5th May, if anyone is interested.

Aberdeen will be an interesting city to watch- very polarised. A widely loathed local council, a grubby Tory & suspended Labour coalition stitch-up, is being opposed by the SNP, but the city seems really divided.

There's a pisspoor slate of candidates in my ward so I think my involvement will extending to breaking wind in the voting booth and spoling the paper. I'm not voting for any of Tory, Labour, Liberal or SNP, the Green candidate is incredibly smug and loathable.

Hopefully other urbanites out there will be more enthused and engaged.

 

[strung out]

The only thing we in Bristol have got is a referendum on whether to continue having an elected mayor. Currently deciding how many fucks I give, and it's a toss up between no fucks and zero fucks.

 

[Sue]

Well here in Hackney, we have council elections and the local mayoral one too. Labour will be weighing the votes yet again so...

 

[nogojones]

I doubt I'll have the will to get out of bed to vote for any of the cunts standing round here.

On the subject of the greens... a mate, out of the blue has announced he's standing for them in a ward down the road. I thought it was just his normal crack fuelled ramblings (he fucking loves the rock), but it looks legit and he's on the ballot

He has no particular politics of note, but can get pulled towards conspiracism, especially after hitting the pipe hard.

 

[geminisnake]

I will probably vote in the locals, I didn't bother last time as they were all tories of one colour or another, and that includes the yellow ones

 

[Puddy_Tat]

meh.

blue vermin - don't be silly

yellow vermin - meh, although it's sitting councillor who is pretty good at local stuff and getting involved.

pinkish vermin - meh. little chance of winning. and don't want to endorse starmerism (although if the results nationally are crap, he will take that as a sign the party isn't right wing enough.)

and a green candidate. have voted green a few times, but before their anti worker stance in brighton+heave. not yet researched to see how much of a loon this one is.

not sure i can summon up the enthusiasm even to go and draw something rude on the paper...

 

[MickiQ]

We have local elections here, If the weather is nice we might go for a stroll to the polling booth if only because we have close friends who are election workers and it's nice to say hi. Youngest Q has received a polling card but I can't see her coming back from Uni a 100+ miles away to cast her vote.
It will be interesting to see how things pan out nationally given the massive CoL crisis reducing a substantial segment of the population to poverty, Partygate which seems to have faded from public perception and the Ukrainian war. Here however is True Blue Yokel Land and I feel like the only dissenter in the village at times.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and oops - noticed now this is on the scotland forum. there are local elections in england as well.

i don't have an SNP candidate standing in wokingham, so can't be uninspired by them...

 

[Dom Traynor]

Serious question - have the SNP ever stood outside of Scotland?

 

[pogofish]

They have never run outside Scotland. The idea raises its head periodically but gets knocked down again in fairly short order.

Its not actually that long since it was not that unusual to hear an SNP candidate sate that they would refuse to take their seat in an English parliament if elected - this “Oath of Allegiance“ issue was one of the matters they had to overcome in order to make themselves an electable proposition and was for a long time a matter of considerable contention within the party.

 

[equationgirl]

I'll be doing a postal vote now the ballot papers are here. Be interesting to see if there have been any changes in Glasgow.

 

[danny la rouge]

Serious question - have the SNP ever stood outside of Scotland?

No. I understand there is a London Branch, though.

 

[danny la rouge]

I would draw your attention to the SNP's bizarre and uninspiring message for these elections: "ease the squeeze".



"Ease the Squeeze". What the actual fuck?

 

[Sue]

Didn't realise this was in the Scotland forum. Sorry, steeplejack

No. I understand there is a London Branch, though.

I met someone who was involved in it a few years ago (friend of a friend).

 

[dessiato]

Having met the local SNP candidate at a selection meeting, I'll be voting for her.

 

[gentlegreen]

I would draw your attention to the SNP's bizarre and uninspiring message for these elections: "ease the squeeze".



"Ease the Squeeze". What the actual fuck?

She's going full-on (whoever the Libdem leader was in the last election)

 

[gentlegreen]

The only thing we in Bristol have got is a referendum on whether to continue having an elected mayor. Currently deciding how many fucks I give, and it's a toss up between no fucks and zero fucks.

Me too - I'm struggling to find much enthusiasm - I probably only voted last time because there were other elections happening though it will be interesting to see how the mask thing plays there ...

Since I retired I pay twice as much council tax as income tax ...

 

[steeplejack]

ffs

 

[brogdale]

A rare trip 'across the border' for me; this is just so Gallowayesque...it deserves to be preserved here:

 

[steeplejack]

Yes Salmond & Galloway two cheeks of the same reactionary, self-promoting arse.

Alba will disappear up its own bigoted fundament when the handsy Strichen buddha gets bored of having his arse handed to him repeatedly by the electorate.

 

[8ball]

I would draw your attention to the SNP's bizarre and uninspiring message for these elections: "ease the squeeze".

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"Ease the Squeeze". What the actual fuck?

Sponsored by Squeezy Cheesy Peas.

(now in strawberry flavour!)

 

[danny la rouge]

Sponsored by Squeezy Cheesy Peas.

(now in strawberry flavour!)

I can’t shake the notion that it’s the strap line for a proprietary brand of laxatives.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Only in the Brigadoon Bullshit that is the Scottish Nazi Party could a gain of 22 seats in Council elections be described as anything other than a very minor adjustment.

 

[steeplejack]

Only in the Brigadoon Bullshit that is the Scottish Nazi Party could a gain of 22 seats in Council elections be described as anything other than a very minor adjustment.

 

[Sasaferrato]

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Good picture of Sturgeon.

 

[steeplejack]

Aberdeen now has an SNP-Lib Dem run council with the shape-shifting self interested independent jumping ship to vote with the new leadership.

So if Glasgow is anything to go by we can look forward to gutted public services and a bonfire of cultural & social provision in the next five years, in the city worst hit by Brexit outside of London.

 

[danny la rouge]

Aberdeen now has an SNP-Lib Dem run council with the shape-shifting self interested independent jumping ship to vote with the new leadership.

So if Glasgow is anything to go by we can look forward to gutted public services and a bonfire of cultural & social provision in the next five years, in the city worst hit by Brexit outside of London.

Sorry to hear that. I hope Aberdeen can build strong community resistance.

 

[steeplejack]

Sorry to hear that. I hope Aberdeen can build strong community resistance.

The question is how much the funding logjam between Edinburgh and Aberdeen that existed before can be unjammed, and how it will then be used. pogofish may have some more ideas. I am not hugely optimistic however.

 

[pogofish]

I think they jumped some of the hurdles to secure some more funding but not the amount they feel is due to them.

Community resistance is still pretty patchy and broken-up though. There has yet to be an issue that adequately unifies the different parts of the city.

 

[pogofish]

I have to say that my experience of the Aberdeen Lib Dems isn't that great - A lot of them are the sort of entirely self-serving types who only went Liberal because they could get a crack at a seat/council position much faster than with the other parties.