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Local elections and GC feminism thread

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 03/05/2023 16:33

Hi, just thought I'd start a thread as have seen threads recently about campaigning but not about the actual elections.

I live in a Tory-controlled area which has recently been in the news for bad mismanagement and Lab and LDs snapping at their heels here in different council seats. I don't necessarily want the Tories in but also worried now about the impact on local women's services if anyone else gets in - we currently have good council-run leisure facilities with clearly sex-segregated changing and a local SARC that is female-only.

I am worried these things will be lost.

How is everyone feeling/ voting as we move into Thurs?

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Boiledbeetle · 03/05/2023 20:48

I'm in an all Labour ward currently. And I'm a member of the Labour Party.

I've just voted Conservative.

It will have (maybe, maybe not who knows these days) absolutely no bearing on the final result. But I refuse to vote Labour at the moment. And as the Labour councillors here have made my life so so much more difficult as a disabled person trying to get round my own town im doubly pissed at them.

It felt very strange to put my X next to anything but Labour. But I haven't been struck down yet. (Postal vote I voted last week).

I'm so hoping Labour come to their senses and get rid of Kier before the general election otherwise I will vote Conservative then as well.

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 03/05/2023 18:55

I think because it was a postal vote (I'm disabled) it feels like more of a statement. It's got to be sent out, collected from the postbox, sorted, opened and finally counted.

zibzibara · 03/05/2023 18:51

Greens are much worse on this issue than any other party.

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 03/05/2023 18:44

@SapphosRock that is good.

Tbh I spoiled my ballot last election but.... in spite of how utterly foreign it feels.... I might vote Tory.

I have started to feel like spoiling my ballot isn't enough of a statement, you know?

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PastMyBestBeforeDate · 03/05/2023 17:33

I've spoilt mine and sent it back already.

SapphosRock · 03/05/2023 17:31

I emailed all the local candidates about local women's rights issues.

Most ignored me.

Got a short, snotty non-reply from Labour.

Nice reply from a Tory but... I just can't.

Got a positive friendly reply from a local independent and looked at his other policies and they seem good so that's one vote.

So the second is either Green or Lib Dem.

Novina · 03/05/2023 17:21

On my ballot paper will be 2 tories, 2 LDs and 1 green. I can't vote for any of them, so spoiled ballot is my plan.