Local Government Elections

[bugshaw]

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.

Comments

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

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.)

(S)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

No LD flyers in Coleridge either. Sarah does a lot of pointing at things (in a good way) but she's not my area.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

You've presumably seen http://libdemspointing.co.uk/ then? :)

[nmg.livejournal.com]

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.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

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.

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

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.

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

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.

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

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.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

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

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I got my first Labour leaflet today! Hrm, I would've volunteered if things had been less manic.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

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...