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by Byron
So, how'd people vote? (if you did of course)

Don't know if this is the same everywhere, but everyone got three votes in my ward, so I made my mark for an independent and two Tories.

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Were there elections today? Not seen anything about them round here, and I didn't get my postal vote form... maybe i'm just being slow

Nothing here either. No forms, no info on polling stations, nada.

for the umpteenth time, the voting cards for everyone here never turned up - last time, our postal votes came the day after...
although i would have voted tory (for what good that would do - this is a staunchly labour ward)

I got a card in the post the other week. It was voting for 3 councillors round here too. I didn't vote though, I very rarely do.

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by PictureOfFlowers
I didn't vote though, I very rarely do.

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Me either. I try not to encourage them

(Edited by Teresa 04/05/2006 21:48)

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by mad
for the umpteenth time, the voting cards for everyone here never turned up - last time, our postal votes came the day after...
although i would have voted tory (for what good that would do - this is a staunchly labour ward)

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Great British democracy egh.

Ditto with the Labour ward, but any chip I can knock off their lead is a good'un.

i went and voted green, luckily the voting station was on my road otherwise i would never have made it idon't think. Apparently the Labour candidate here is a cambridge uni student....god knows how they have time to do that as well as their course!

Yay! Last election where I can't vote!

No voting going on in this area.

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by Ferretgirl
Apparently the Labour candidate here is a cambridge uni student....god knows how they have time to do that as well as their course!

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Well if politicians are running round having rampant sex when they should be working it sounds like the ideal job for a student!

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by Ferretgirl
i went and voted green, luckily the voting station was on my road otherwise i would never have made it idon't think. Apparently the Labour candidate here is a cambridge uni student....god knows how they have time to do that as well as their course!

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Y'know if you need driving anywhere just give me a shout

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by Teresa
Me either. I try not to encourage them

(Edited by Teresa 04/05/2006 21:48)

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I'm really glad you edited that post, cos I was racking my brain trying to figure out what you meant before... lol!

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by Byron
So, how'd people vote? (if you did of course)

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I voted Lib Dem, as they have the best chance of turfing out Labour in my ward. I don't like that party in general, but I think the sitting Labour councillor is on a bit of a power trip, and I know the Tory challenger is...

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by The_Host
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I voted Lib Dem, as they have the best chance of turfing out Labour in my ward. I don't like that party in general, but I think the sitting Labour councillor is on a bit of a power trip, and I know the Tory challenger is...

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely ...

... And petty power corrupts out of all proportion.

Lib Dem hold here. No idea whether that's good or not

Welsh-based person here. Sat back, heckled and watched Labour get a bloody nose with some degree of satisfaction.

Although watching baby-faced Cameron stalk around Hammersmith talking about how a rout like this is a message to the government and the PM that their time is up had me thinking that I'd woken up in a Groundhog Day-esque timeslip to 1997.

I voted Labour - couldn't not really as the candiadate is my Mum's partner. Labour held on to overall control of the council thank goodness (the Tory's and Liberals round here couldn't organise the proverbial piss up) and the best news was that despite some very active campaigning the BNP didn't win any seats.

Pretty much the same here - although I don't intend to vote Labour come national election time, round these parts I get the impression (albeit with my limited depth of political knowledge) that they're the only group with more than half a brain cell between them or inclination to use it - so when I decided to vote for the first time, I didn't see much room for viable alternative. It's nice to see at least someone gives a hoot about making this wretched hive of scum and villainy worthy of even a single Starbucks.

And Syd, isn't your ward Sudell? If I remember correctly, the Sudell Labour rep is Eileen Entwistle... Either I'm getting my wards confused or there's something your lot haven't been telling me! (EDIT: I'm guessing you're actually Sunnyhurst... damn those pesky similar syllables, killed my crappy joke! )

In related news, get a load of this cabinet shuffle!

(Edited by Alan 05/05/2006 15:36)

Charles Clarke: finally crowbarred out of the Home Secretary position, and immediately went off-message by issuing a statement pointing out that Tory Bliar had said that Clarke staying in post would be a barrier to continued reforms that he (Bliar) wanted to make.

Needing all of the cronies he can get, he apparently offered Clarke several other jobs - but Clarke maintained his position that if he couldn't play the game from the exact position he wanted, he was going to take his proverbrial ball home and sulk.

Presumably, Tory's friend George will be unimpressed as being lumped in with "Rest of World" with Margaret Beckett, and Conthepeople Rice will be heartbroken at the loss of Jack Straw.

John Reid: parachuted into yet another position, and the commentators're already saying that in the era of the Scottish Parliament, having a Scot responsible for England's home affairs might provide government opponents with an easy target.

This is all probably a relief for Prescott, who was being lined up last night as the person who was going to have to prostrate himself before the press and say that Labour's election woes were all his fault. Talk is that he's still going to have to admit as much, but in a TV interview on Sunday, rather than ASAP today.

Codswallop.

So the man had an affair. That's his private life. As long as it didn't conflict with or affect his job, then it's nobody else's business.

Granted, his mistress was a civil servant, so if it turns out that she's been benefitting from any of the resources that he's been supplied with by taxpayers' money whilst he's been publicly takinhg her around state occasions, that's another matter.

But compared to the arrogance and incompetence levels of Clarke and Patricia Hewitt, I don't see why someone who's been involved in something as comparatively minor as an extra-maritial affair should be thrown to the wolves as the fall guy.

And that's not even getting into the fact that Tory Bliar and his Weapons of Mass Distraction're probably the most major lack of credibility that the government has in the first place.

Reshuffling the same tired old faces in a game of musical chairs around the Cabinet table isn't even rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic - if you tie enough of those together, you can at least construct some sort of rudimentary raft.

What Blair's doing is rearranging the table napkins, and not even noticing that he's the iceberg in the first place.

(Bitter Lib Dem? Who? Me?)

(Edited by Samanfur 05/05/2006 15:45)