#24

I’d call it the Kyle Walker party as he also cost £50m and will be forgot about in ten years time.

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#25

Not really necessary mate.

#26

I’d suffer with joke anxiety over a gag like this for days.

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#27

How are the BBC getting away with such fucking open Tory bias so regularly?

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#28

They’ve moved the polling station from 100 yards away to a mile away. cba with that for a council election. Moving away in a couple of months anyway.

For some utterly bizarre reason that I cannot fathom, it’s always Tory councillors by a landslide round here anyway.

#30

If they want to vote for daft old Tory curtain twitchers to moan about bins, that’s up to them.

#31

Impressive social responsibility in a politics thread :+1:t2:

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#32

You’re probably right, but I don’t really get what local councillors do apart from moan about anything being built and dog shit in the park.

#33

Under the tories they are responsible for the budgeting of nearly everything. De-centralised government and all that.
City councils are responsible for housing which is absolutely crucial when looking at the current inequality

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#34

Voter attachments to the traditional parties have been decaying for a long time.

And why might that be do you think, Andy? And why might it have changed dramatically for Labour recently.

These suited glasses of water are obsessed with En Marche, as if it wasn’t a cheap parlour trick that the French electorate already despises. Maybe they think if they just keep changing the party name every four years or so, the people will let them keep practicing their soft touch neoliberal bullshit forever. After all, if you that’s the ideology your wagons are being pulled by, marketing is everything.

#35

oh shit, completely forgot to do this. how long have I got?

oh april 17th

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#36

Fair enough. You’ll understand the lack of enthusiasm from me - and probably many others - when anything that comes through the letterbox regarding ‘local politics’ is going on about them organising a Christmas dinner for the old dears or litter picking in the park or being a NIMBY about literally anything. That’s probably why it’s only ever Doris and her mates who bother voting in these things.
Doesn’t seem to be much of an effort to show that local elections are actually important and that local councillors do anything worthwhile.

#38

I wasn’t arguing they don’t, just that little seems to be made of the fact that who you vote for in a council election does actually affect those things. Probably why nobody bothers to vote in them when the local councillors only ever bang on about things your Nan would get worked up about.

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#39

but foxy wasn’t pretending they don’t have real powers, rather that no candidate for election has made any effort to convince that they intend to do anything meaningful with them. And I’d say “I’m not voting because all the candidates are coming across as lazy and unfit for office” was rather a good excuse.

#41

You’re making the assumption that there’s a candidate deserving of foxy’s vote.

#44

Yeah I’m playing devil’s advocate a bit too hard here. But on the flipside I think you are attributing a bit too much seriousness to the moral obligation to vote. I know it’s important, but we have to accept that in some places and some times (I’ve lived in a few) it really doesn’t matter much if you don’t. I’ve had the same three councillors for the last decade and there’s no way any of them’s getting shifted, no matter what they do.

#46

You know what I’m getting at.

#48

Well you’re right and I have always gone and voted for the Labour candidate and flippancy aside, probably will make the extra effort to go and vote this time for what it’s worth.

But when the Tories always get half the vote, the polling station has been moved a mile away and there’s no real effort to make voting in a local election seem like it’s of any importance - why would anyone bother?

#49

On the subject of people being worth voting for despite lacklustre campaigning, my dad ran for councillor in a very safe Norfolk tory constituency. Being the type he is he threw himself into the campaign regardless and did the hard yards. He still didn’t win, but he did increase the vote share (and count). I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that level of commitment from someone who wants you to go down the road and put a tick in a box, and someone who doesn’t do it probably won’t be a good councillor, even if they are from the party of the angels.

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#52

Well that’s unfortunate, but it still doesn’t change the fact that a voter is entitled to see some evidence of the quality of the candidate. Are people supposed to vote for your friend on blind faith?