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Local Government Elections

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 05:20pm on 02/05/2012
The candidate literature is strangely unbalanced. On the front of one flyer they tell us all about why not to vote for the other guys, because of x,y,z big central government actions (cuts! fees! privatising one's grandparents! etc). But on the back, where it says why to vote for this candidate, it's all local issues - fixed a bollard, arranged cycle parking and fought for improved bus timetables. They broke the NHS! I mended a pavement! I can see why they do it but it does feel off-balance.
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posted by [identity profile] stephdairy.livejournal.com at 04:36pm on 02/05/2012
Mm. I'm seeing lots of tweets about how great the Lib Dems are in government, but precious few about standard pointing-at-things issues. (And have yet to get any LD flyers in East Chesterton.)

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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:45pm on 02/05/2012
No LD flyers in Coleridge either. Sarah does a lot of pointing at things (in a good way) but she's not my area.
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posted by [identity profile] uisgebeatha.livejournal.com at 01:35pm on 03/05/2012
You've presumably seen http://libdemspointing.co.uk/ then? :)
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posted by [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com at 05:07pm on 02/05/2012
We've had both Tory flyers telling us not to vote for Labour (and some of them have even mentioned that they're Tory flyers), and Lib Dem flyers telling us not to vote for Labour. No Labour flyers, of course.
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posted by [identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com at 05:10pm on 02/05/2012
It's been very low key this year in Abbey. No door stepping and only a Green leaflet . We have two Greens and one Labour councillor at present.
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posted by [identity profile] pjc50.livejournal.com at 06:17pm on 02/05/2012
It's very, very quiet - not even the usual LD posters in windows. I think this is the result of activists being quietly discouraged from supporting their own party.
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posted by [identity profile] ci5rod.livejournal.com at 08:16pm on 02/05/2012
More likely targeting. For the first time in a while the LibDems are in the defensive position (being in power, always a bad thing :-) and are having to pick and choose fights carefully.
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posted by [identity profile] murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com at 07:19pm on 02/05/2012
We've only had a Labour flyer, which considering we're in an area where a dead donkey with a red rosette on it would get voted in strikes me as a waste of effort.

The options for tomorrow are fairly grim: as well as the three main parties (nay, nay, and thrice nay) we've got the Greens and their happy plans to kill off half the world's population to save the planet, and the "Alliance for Green Socialism", which I think is a bunch of Trotskyists who split off from Respect.

Time to dust off Michael J Mouse, methinks.
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posted by [identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com at 10:08pm on 02/05/2012
I vote Green precisely because I don't want to kill off half or more of the world's population.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jun/23/sudan.climatechange

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posted by [identity profile] sphyg.livejournal.com at 10:08pm on 02/05/2012
I got my first Labour leaflet today! Hrm, I would've volunteered if things had been less manic.
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posted by [identity profile] uisgebeatha.livejournal.com at 01:34pm on 03/05/2012
We've had boatloads of Labour leaflets, and one single LD with the usual 'Can't win here!!!' nonsense.

I've been reliably told the LDs have basically not bothered to target Arbury/Castle because the Labour candidate is 'a nice guy', and they want to target Kings Hedges/Romsey and other places where presumably there's a demand for LD leaflets with bar graphs...
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