LOCAL ELECTION 2007: Portslade South comes to the boil
Feverish activity on the campaign trail here in the shabby but happy Brighton ‘burb of Portslade South.
The campaign literature through the letterbox count stands at:
Labour: 3
Conservative: 1
Lib Dems: 0
Greens 0
Needless to say, much of the Labour recycling featured dire threats about what a vote for the Lib Dems might do.
The canvasser count stands at:
Labour: 1
Conservative: 1
Lib Dem: 0
Greens: 0
As is usual, when she knocked on the door, the arrival of the Labour candidate left my mind blank and I bent my knee subserviently. Other than the pavements still being glazed with dogshit and the huge seagulls that nest on the roofs of our street and whose vigorous rutting wakes the kids in a morning, my list of gripes eluded me. (I even got the street lamp outside my youngest daughter’s bedroom window that buzzed loudly fixed via the DirectGov website.) She didn’t seem particularly interested or sympathetic about the shit or seagulls. And the local council hasn’t exactly been a beacon of democracy under Labour’s tender ministrations.
My partner opened the door to one of the Tory candidates who immediately weed on his own fireworks by making the massive and honkingly erroneous assumption because we have a NO2ID postcard in the living room window that automatically made us Tory voters. Like blogging, it seem the Tories invented civil liberties. I would have spoken to the herbert but after overhearing that I lost my will to live let alone my will to engage on local issues.
So who to vote for, the two major parties making lacklustre showings and the rest showing not at all? Time to fall back on the old standby. Vote None Of The Above.
Posted on May 2nd, 2007 at 1:46pm under UK politics
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I used to have a soda siphon on hand in case Tory canvassers came round. Never got to use it though.
What’s your problem with voting green – environmental and social justice in one package?
ejh: I used to have a soda siphon on hand in case Tory canvassers came round. Never got to use it though.
Whatever happened to a wooden stake and some garlic?
PS: Justin, how’s the school places issue affecting things?
bbm: My hand may waver over the Green’s box before I draw a massive cock and balls on my ballot paper (as is traditional with ballot-spoilers, or so I’ve been told). It would have been nice for them to blow my skirts up a bit.
redpesto …how’s the school places issue affecting things?
I’m not really sure. My kids aren’t at that age yet so I complacently tuned out a bit at the time.
The Labour fix to get the motion through was pretty despicable, mind (dissenting committee members sacked before the vote). That’s the part that sticks in my mind.
Hanging baskets, mate. Shame you didn’t raise it when the canvasser came, but you can always ring them up.
Do you need a car to take you to the polling station?
Well, no, but…
I’m not a fan of the hanging basket, Phil. No drainage you see. Risk of drowning whatever you put in them. We tried tomatoes in some this year and they’re knackered.
I’ll ask for maybe a nice pot for the decking at the next election.