Local Elections - Your Vote (1 Viewer)

[Philosorapter]

Just a quick poll of the SBT community on your voting intention in the forthcoming Local Elections.

Also be interested in comments on why you would, or would not, vote for a particular political party.

The poll is anonymous.

 

[Otis]

Christian Movement for a Clearer Britain? Jesus! Where in earth did they pop up from?

Never even heard of them. Are they a new party?

 

[Philosorapter]

Christian Movement for a Clearer Britain? Jesus! Where in earth did they pop up from?

Never even heard of them. Are they a new party?

Good question. Seems like an evangelical sort of thing following divine command theory.

 

[Otis]

Good question. Seems like an evangelical sort of thing following divine command theory.

Well as long as they can feed five thousand people from scraps of food and bring City back from the dead they have my vote!

 

[RegTheDonk]

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Also be interested in comments on why you would, or would not, vote for a particular political party.

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I think Corbin is an idiot and making him leader is handing the next general election to the tories, but I will be voting Labour out of selfish self interest.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

I do postal vote over here do have voted labour but have done a one man protest in the police commissioner by voting independent.

 

[skybluetony176]

Conservative as always. For one simple reason. Forget big politics if you want your local council run efficiently, good value for money and your council tax as low as possible vote conservative. You only have to look at what a disaster CCC and Birmingham council are to see that's true.

 

[clint van damme]

Conservative as always. For one simple reason. Forget big politics if you want your local council run efficiently, good value for money and your council tax as low as possible vote conservative. You only have to look at what a disaster CCC and Birmingham council are to see that's true.

I've always enjoyed your posts up until now!

 

[stupot07]

Conservative as always. For one simple reason. Forget big politics if you want your local council run efficiently, good value for money and your council tax as low as possible vote conservative. You only have to look at what a disaster CCC and Birmingham council are to see that's true.

Lol

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[chiefdave]

By pure coincidence the councils that have seen the smallest budget cuts are those where there are tory MPs.

Do conservative councils manage their budget as well as Osbourne? He has five times the normal number of advisors yet has managed to miss every single one of his targets. That would be bad enough but it gets worse. The person who sets the targets is George Osbourne!

 

[skybluetony176]

By pure coincidence the councils that have seen the smallest budget cuts are those where there are tory MPs.

Do conservative councils manage their budget as well as Osbourne? He has five times the normal number of advisors yet has managed to miss every single one of his targets. That would be bad enough but it gets worse. The person who sets the targets is George Osbourne!

If this politics thing doesn't work out for him I bet there's always a job waiting for him with SISU. Sounds like he has all the right qualities to make it there

 

[NorthernWisdom]

Conservative as always. For one simple reason. Forget big politics if you want your local council run efficiently, good value for money and your council tax as low as possible vote conservative. You only have to look at what a disaster CCC and Birmingham council are to see that's true.

I'll remember that when they put me out of a job.

 

[slyblue57]

I genuinely believe if Lucas or any labour party member sold coventry to Putin a monkey in a red shirt would win an election in coventry.
pusb

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Will be voting TUSC on Thursday, Labour will likely get my vote nationally but their running of the city has brought shame upon it and the Greater Birmingham fiasco does not endear me to Cllr Lucas one bit. At least in this election I don't have to contend with the fecking SNP.

 

[RegTheDonk]

Will be voting TUSC on Thursday, Labour will likely get my vote nationally but their running of the city has brought shame upon it and the Greater Birmingham fiasco does not endear me to Cllr Lucas one bit. At least in this election I don't have to contend with the fecking SNP.

I would follow you Brighton but I believe voting TUSC, or indeed UKIP, will take Labour votes and let the Tories in .... certainly feel TUSC would take a big chunk from Labour in the PCC elections as union members will vote for them. Political commentators in the last general were saying how much UKIP would gain from anti-euro tories...in fact, they caused perhaps a bigger dent in the Labour vote.

 

[Covstu]

Anyone but labour, Lucas and her idiots have ruled this city for too long. This will sadly never change though

 

[Captain Dart]

Anyone but labour, Lucas and her idiots have ruled this city for too long. This will sadly never change though

It is not inevitable, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_City_Council_elections

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:[SUP][2][/SUP]

Party in control	Years
Labour	1973 - 1978
Conservative	1978 - 1979
Labour	1979 - 2003
No overall control	2003 - 2006
Conservative	2006 - 2008
No overall control	2008 - 2010
Labour	2010–present

 

[chiefdave]

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties

What did they do before 1973?

This does illustrate a problem with UK politics and the voting system we use. So many people don't bother voting because they think its a waste of time or the party they support can't win.

 

[NorthernWisdom]

I would follow you Brighton but I believe voting TUSC, or indeed UKIP, will take Labour votes and let the Tories in .... certainly feel TUSC would take a big chunk from Labour in the PCC elections as union members will vote for them. Political commentators in the last general were saying how much UKIP would gain from anti-euro tories...in fact, they caused perhaps a bigger dent in the Labour vote.

The only people, so far, who've even graced me with a leaflet is Labour.

The others aren't exactly working for my vote!

 

[Grendel]

I will be voting Green as they are the only party with a proactive approach to animal welfare.

 

[shmmeee]

Conservative as always. For one simple reason. Forget big politics if you want your local council run efficiently, good value for money and your council tax as low as possible vote conservative. You only have to look at what a disaster CCC and Birmingham council are to see that's true.

LOL. Someone's drunk the Kool Aid.

Fancy giving me one example of an "efficiency" brought about by a Tory council?

 

[armybike]

For info:

Labour Party remain in control of CCC.

Labour 39 seats
Conservative 15

 

[fernandopartridge]

Coventry must be the most apathetic place in Britain. Ridiculous turnout.

As for council efficiency, don't kid yourself that the party in charge of the council makes any difference. Only yesterday voters were turned away from Tory Barnet Council polling stations as the council staff had "forgotten to send the ballot forms".

 

[clint van damme]

Coventry must be the most apathetic place in Britain. Ridiculous turnout.

As for council efficiency, don't kid yourself that the party in charge of the council makes any difference. Only yesterday voters were turned away from Tory Barnet Council polling stations as the council staff had "forgotten to send the ballot forms".

it's hard to disagree with that comment - unfortunately.

 

[Ashdown]

We didn't have a local election in LE10 yesterday but the council is Tory. Before that Liberal. One thing I did read in our local rag yesterday is that our council are considering charging people £40 per car per year to park on the roads outside of your house ! Is that not absolutely preposterous ? Apparently they already do this in parts of Loughborough and other areas.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

We didn't have a local election in LE10 yesterday but the council is Tory. Before that Liberal. One thing I did read in our local rag yesterday is that our council are considering charging people £40 per car per year to park on the roads outside of your house ! Is that not absolutely preposterous ? Apparently they already do this in parts of Loughborough and other areas.

I live in Walsgrave not far from the hospital and they introduced a residents parking scheme as a lot (and i mean a LOT) of staff from the hospital were parking on the estate and blocking roads etc. It is free initially but likelyhood is that we'll be paying for permits in a couple more years.

 

[Ashdown]

I live in Walsgrave not far from the hospital and they introduced a residents parking scheme as a lot (and i mean a LOT) of staff from the hospital were parking on the estate and blocking roads etc. It is free initially but likelyhood is that we'll be paying for permits in a couple more years.

My wife works at UHCW and pays for a parking space in the staff car park..................It's just gone up to nearly £500 per year............to park at work ?? Is that fair, no wonder staff are trying to get round it in the locality ?

 

[Nick]

My wife works at UHCW and pays for a parking space in the staff car park..................It's just gone up to nearly £500 per year............to park at work ?? Is that fair, no wonder staff are trying to get round it in the locality ?

That's shocking

Should pretend to be a gypsy and get it free

 

[Ashdown]

That's shocking

Should pretend to be a gypsy and get it free

They are having new barriers with height restrictions installed soon to keep them out !

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

My wife works at UHCW and pays for a parking space in the staff car park..................It's just gone up to nearly £500 per year............to park at work ?? Is that fair, no wonder staff are trying to get round it in the locality ?

I wasn'nt having a moan about the parking, more about the fact taht we'll be paying for parking our own cars. It is no wonder people try and get round paying for car parking, but, then I see the flip side of Buses, Lorries and even emergency vehicles not being able to drive round roads due to some dimwits blocking them with bad/lazy parking. Couple it with people being blocked into their own driveways as inconsiderate people park across them and you see why they introduced it. As I drive past the hospital entrance every day I see car after car with only 1 driver in it or a half empty bus. Surely a common sense approach is to use public transport or car share to reduce the congestion and cost.

 

[Ashdown]

I wasn'nt having a moan about the parking, more about the fact taht we'll be paying for parking our own cars. It is no wonder people try and get round paying for car parking, but, then I see the flip side of Buses, Lorries and even emergency vehicles not being able to drive round roads due to some dimwits blocking them with bad/lazy parking. Couple it with people being blocked into their own driveways as inconsiderate people park across them and you see why they introduced it. As I drive past the hospital entrance every day I see car after car with only 1 driver in it or a half empty bus. Surely a common sense approach is to use public transport or car share to reduce the congestion and cost.

They should have built a multi storey car park from the start and made it reasonable. The idiotic Labour council at the time deemed that everyone should use public transport to get to the hospital but if you take a look at the addresses of the staff many are driving in for 10-15 miles or so and can't get public transport and patients and visitors feeling either ill or traumatised don't want to sit on a bus either.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

They should have built a multi storey car park from the start and made it reasonable. The idiotic Labour council at the time deemed that everyone should use public transport to get to the hospital but if you take a look at the addresses of the staff many are driving in for 10-15 miles or so and can't get public transport and patients and visitors feeling either ill or traumatised don't want to sit on a bus either.

my wife is a nurse at GE but luckily for us she can walk to work in 10 minutes but if she wanted to get public transport to Walsgrave she would need to get 3 buses which is pretty difficult if you are starting at 7am or finishing at 10pm.

the parking situation at Walsgrave is crazy why these crazy councils think public transport is the answer I don't know I bet a councillor rarely gets a bus to work

 

[ccfcway]

Labour in again. The electorate has spoken. Clearly must be on board with the part they have had to play in the last 10 years at CCFC then.

 

[NorthernWisdom]

Labour in again. The electorate has spoken. Clearly must be on board with the part they have had to play in the last 10 years at CCFC then.

Didn't vote Labour (as much for the CCFC debacle as anything), but they're still the only ones who were bothered to even leaflet me to say what they were about, so it's hard to argue that anyone else wanted my vote.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

TUSC were the only ones to leaflet me besides Labour and they got my vote. The candidate even finished ahead of the Lib Dems so not a bad result although the Labour incumbent won comfortably.

Terrible turnout though, which is hardly a ringing endorsement for anyone elected last night.