The "who are you voting for on May 3" thread
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Tom A
Goat among sheep
BTW, I have heard from a good friend (who happens to be standing as a Green himself in Lancaster) that the Leeds Greens who supported the Tories' neo-liberal agenda have been made pariahs within their own party.
Just though you would like to know. You may have reason to think that's bollocks but I trust my friends judgement on this one.
Just though you would like to know. You may have reason to think that's bollocks but I trust my friends judgement on this one.
Fisher_Gate
Active Member
Tom A said:
Sure. No doubt it's because they are pariahs that they are trumpeted as one of the 'successes' in 'influential positions' on the official Green Party website .
F_G,
To be fair that press release is just a statement of fact.
However, this is one of the few criticisms of the Greens by RESPECT that I think is entirely fair. I don't agree that the Leeds councillors have been made into pariahs - the worst that has happened to them is that people mumble a bit when talking about it and look a bit sheepish. Which, quite frankly, isn't good enough. If I had my way something would be done. The fact that nothing is being done is one of the reasons that I helped found Green Left.
However - extrapolating right-wing behaviour on the part of all Greens because of the actions of one local party is neither fair nor balanced. Most Green councillors, and Green candidates are well to the left of the mainstream, and a good progressive choice.
Thats my view anyway, but I don't get a vote this year!
Matt
To be fair that press release is just a statement of fact.
However, this is one of the few criticisms of the Greens by RESPECT that I think is entirely fair. I don't agree that the Leeds councillors have been made into pariahs - the worst that has happened to them is that people mumble a bit when talking about it and look a bit sheepish. Which, quite frankly, isn't good enough. If I had my way something would be done. The fact that nothing is being done is one of the reasons that I helped found Green Left.
However - extrapolating right-wing behaviour on the part of all Greens because of the actions of one local party is neither fair nor balanced. Most Green councillors, and Green candidates are well to the left of the mainstream, and a good progressive choice.
Thats my view anyway, but I don't get a vote this year!
Matt
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
Pete the Greek said:
Maybe you should ask the residents of a borough that recently changed hands to the tories and they are having their library service decimated. They are also cutting back on the mobile and home visit service for the elderly. Bastards. People who served this country in peace and in war are now going to be left without the only regular contact with the outside world the mobile libriarian.
Still if you vote for shit you get shit services. Not that I think NL councils are any better. And as for the lib dems.....
Slighlty off topic I've just been over on the BBC Speak Your Brains site and I'm surprised at the amount of people who are saying they would vote bnp. I counted about 5 in two pages or so. Very worrying.
I am not left-wing but I will vote for the local Socialist Party incumbent as I know him to be a principled individual who has a good track record in standing up for the less well off and giving the council bigwigs some well-deserved stick.
Would sooner eat a plate of cold sick than vote Labour.
Would sooner eat a plate of cold sick than vote Labour.
The Pious Pawn said:
Speaking of the BNP ... has anyone noticed the astonishing level of BNP endorsements on BBC's "Have Your Say" READERS RECOMMENDED ?
If the link does not work, go here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stm and click on "Elections 2007: Will you be voting?" and select READERS RECOMMENDED.
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
TAE said:
I was looking at that earlier scary isn't it?
Looks like the 'internet warriors' of the BNP have launched another bid to flood this HYS so as to create a false impression that they're the big news. Truth is, tha vast majority of people reject their easy, lazy scapegoating and sloganeering - the only danger is if that majority stay home, so let's all make sure we vote!KeyboardJockey said:
Sick Of Extremists, York
i hope to god that this chap/chapess is right
JoePolitix
Gone
In Bloom said:
Mate, I don't think - I know. With regards to homecare Labour didnt vote for privatisation. Yes, its true that they let the private agencies pick up work as the Home Care market expanded in Bristol. They also let the pensions and shopping and laundry work go to the agencies.
But they never tried to do what the Lib Dems are attempting now. When Labour were in control of Bristol they never tried to privatise personal care against the wishes of the workforce and the service users. Labour councilllors have backed the home care workers. See:
http://bristolhomecare.blogspot.com/2007/04/march-for-home-care_26.html
Being a deluded reformist (and not an evil Bukuninite idealist/hypocrite like you and your crypto-Bukuninite poodle Mk12) I voted acordingly. Not that it matters though. Bristol West (where I live) has become so gentrified with students and yuppy filth the lib dems are bound to get re-elected. With any luck though the slimbag for Easton will get his just desserts.
JoePolitix said:But and yuppy filth the lib dems are bound to get re-elected. With any luck though the slimbag for Easton will get his just desserts.
Fortunately not, they lost 2 seats in Bristol, including Kiely in Easton
and (amazingly) labour took 29% of votes, LibDems 27% & Tories only 25% across the parts of the city that voted... worryingly high votes for BNP tho 
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