Local elections

Hmm. Will they though?

The Lib Dems can't do much about financially struggling families from winning in local government, and the chances of them winning power in Westminster is zero. There only hope is to hold the balance of power, and look what happened last time!

We are lucky enough to have had a Liberal or LibDem councilfor more than 35 years..

In spite of the way the government have cut back on Local Authority finances they have done a very good job.

We have a Labour council and I think they do a good job so I will be voting Labour in the local elections.
However, I am not so sure about the next general election, I am not happy with Keir Starmer and am hoping that we might have a socialist candidate, which we have had in the past.

Isn’t it better to vote for the candidate who will best serve your local community? That’s what I always do regardless of how I might vote in a general election.

Germanshepherdsmum

Isn’t it better to vote for the candidate who will best serve your local community? That’s what I always do regardless of how I might vote in a general election.

I did vote for the Lib Dem candidate for the County Council last time and he has proved to be ineffectual and completely useless. He seemed unaware of and unconcerned about local issues or even how to answer questions or bother to seek answers.

The Lib Dem candidate for the GE was much more impressive but didn't win.

Spot on Germanshepherdsmum.

I voted liberal many years ago, rather than Labour. The liberal candidates were my doctor, dentist and pharmacist. They lived locally, children at local schools. Sadly, the Labour candidate won, a very un-leassnt, dishonest character.
Our council is currently Tory run. I’ll vote Labour as the candidate is well known and respected.
I’m inclined to agree with German shepherds mum, in the local elections it’s best candidate rather than tribal loyalty. (Can’t imagine I’d vote Tory though?)

Labour lose control of High Peak Council

When was that Maudi because everything I look at shows a Labour council in that area?

Yesterday 7th April 2022.

Thanks for that. Very little reporting of this interesting result.

“Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of imposing a “cowardly” press blackout of Friday’s SNP local government election campaign launch to dodge scrutiny of her government’s “savage” cuts to council funding.

The First Minister will on Friday morning unveil her party’s campaign for the May 5 contest, promising to alleviate the cost of living crisis and urging voters to “send a message to Boris Johnson that Scotland has had enough of his incompetent, sleaze-ridden government”.

But unlike the other party leaders contesting the election, she refused to invite the press to the Glasgow event amid claims that her government is doing far too little to help households with spiralling bills.”

Source: The Telegraph this morning,

Not a good look is it?

Quite a significant swing to the Conservatives.
Not good news for Starmer sitting up there on his fence, no doubt pondering the question he finds so difficult to answer.

Yes it’s tied him in knots hasn’t it JE?
Boris is on the money on that topic. The silent majority (not the shouty minority) agree with him!

What has happened in High Peak Council to precipitate an election which is not on the same day as all the other local elections in the UK, I thought 5th May was a national Election Day?

Re Sturgeon: She's a complete joke, but it's not funny if you live up there - my stepfather’s family despair! - all she has is criticism of the Tories, nothing positive to offer at all and to characterise local Council elections as a choice between “her and Boris Johnson” is ridiculous. These elections are about local services and competent management of Council budgets, that's all.

But a lot of people will fall for it, as always.

Source: The Telegraph this morning,

Not a good look is it?

Quoting from the Telegraph?

No, not a good look.

Talking of Ms. Sturgeon I see that Scotland has a higher covid infection rate than England despite mask wearing there still being compulsory in shops and other venues.

Up here in the wilds of Bonnie Scotland, we have the Tories as the opposition. Every Party Political Broadcast, every time Ross is on TV, every time a Tory appears anywhere, the cry is Oh, SNP bad! Oh they want independence! Oh they never stop talking about it!

"What is your party going to do Dougie?"

Errr....well we won't be the SNP, that's for sure.

There's only one party that is a joke up here and it ain't the SNP. I wonder how all these despairing family members feel about the Tory PPB which featured the guy working so hard for Foodbanks. Foodbanks whose existence his party are responsible for? Not a good look, wee man...

I’ve been doing some digging. The Borough Council for High Peak was appointed on 6th May 2021 according to their own website. What Maudi has posted is the result of the by-election in one ward in High Peak. One ward, one councillor. That’s why it hasn’t been publicised.

Quoting from the Telegraph is obviously not acceptable to a few on here Urms is it?!
And as for me, no doubt I am considered a deplorable for posting something I have read in the Mail ?

We should all know by now that the only newspaper worthy of quoting from is the sanctimonious, humourless Guardian!

True JE! I’m beyond the pale.

The biggest hypocritical statement I've heard for a long long time from Nicola Sturgeon- " send a message to Boris Johnson that Scotland has had enough of his incompetent, sleaze-ridden government”.

The most incompetent government in Western Europe (if you can call the SNP a government) is the one in Edinburgh. I can't think of any area that they have devolved responsibility for that has been a success apart from grievance mongering, disinformation/propaganda and wasting taxpayers money.

Hull 802 also known as Independence, which is rusting away in the Clyde, sums them up exactly.

You can quote from whichever source you like JenniferEccles, just do your homework and check it with other sources to make sure it’s borne out by the facts before posting it on Gransnet or we sanctimonious and humourless types will be on your case.