Council Elections

[OneTealShaker]

The first declared seats going to Reform.

Reform +2
Labour -1

Buckle up people.

They want to improve local services for children and the elderly, I won’t go into too much detail as no doubt I will be deemed thick if I do.

You are SO lucky, and if that were my position I would absolutely be voting for the person, and not the party.
Here, they were all new candidates as our current councillor stood down awaiting us being turned into a Unitary Authority. Even the candidates from other parties (from the incumbent) were new.

Oh yes, the “oh no, I didn’t mean you! I’m not a racist!” type of immigration objectors.

Do you mean the issue about asylum seekers, which is barely even a rounding error in the UK budget and a complete distraction from the genuine economic issues facing the country causing the fall in living standards, that only somebody utterly stupid with no grasp whatsoever of basic maths would consider to be the most pressing issue that should determine their vote?

Or something else? Too many brown people since Boris’ reforms (which, ironically, was a direct result of Brexit and most of our European immigrants leaving and having to be replaced to keep the economy functioning)?

Anybody who’s so stupid that they think immigration is the UK’s problem is not even worth having a discussion with to be honest.

1. EVERYONE votes in their own interests and anyone who says different is lying.

2. Here we go, blaming the older generations for politics taking a turn that you don’t like. Sick and tired of hearing the over-50s being blamed for everything. If younger people don’t like it, they should get off their lazy, entitled arses and go out and vote then, shouldn’t they?

15 years ago when the Tories were in power?

Personally I think we elect too often in this country. Economic decisions are often made with only the party’s current term in mind or long term plans are overturned by incoming parties. Every 10 years would be better imo to give parties a chance to actually make some macro decisions and plans that may come to fruition. Very few things on a country wide scale take only a year or two. Or local authority wide in this case.

Why do you continue insulting people?
And why do you say ‘enjoy!’ to me? - you have no idea who I voted for!

They want to improve services for children?

Have you been living under a rock??

These comments are beyond farcical now.

I suppose for some people - the type of people who deny the validity of data etc and think personal anecdotes are a substitute for informed decision-making - are going to get a nasty shock in the next few months. Perhaps this is necessary.

The enormous amounts of immigration we have had in recent years affects us all. Thousands of mostly men arriving on our shores each year (around 40,000) and another 60,000 claiming asylum via other arrival routes affects us all.

Labour making it more expensive to employ people increasing unemployment affects us all.

I agree, this situation is the culmination of terrible governing by terrible governments over the last decade at least. Brexit was the tipping point for utterly shambolic politics to ensue and now here we are in a mess.

I haven’t insulted anybody.

It's insane to me how many people buy the immigration propaganda. There's just no fucking excuse for it in this day and age.

Fuck me😂

Absolutely. They will have the same FAFO as Trump voters. Reform have actively cut services for elderly people and children, and doubled council tax in doing so. All whilst Nige pockets £5 million of personal spends and Tice avoids tax and lives in Dubai.

I’m going of our local election, I never said anything about how they are doing things anywhere else.
you most likely don’t live in my area and have no idea about the issues myself or other families have in this area.
im allowed to vote for whoever I wish based on my own experience.

And still not being remotely tackled now that Labour are in power? Tories and Labour have both been piss-poor in tackling immigration and now they are reaping the results of people’s frustrations.

OK 😂

I agree that the political system is dysfunctional because it encourages short-term decision making. Often all parties seek to make short-term changes to “save” money on paper which they know will be economically damaging and cost far more in the long run.

I’m not convinced longer periods between elections are the answer. The first obvious step to improve this would be to implement a PR voting system which would almost always result in coalitions and therefore we’d have to have a less adversarial and more co-operative political system where there are cross-party agreements on how to structure things, which would facilitate consistency in long-term plans and them being carried through between parliamentary terms. It would also help to de-politicise plans for healthcare, pensions, taxation, education and industrial strategy so that we could have some stability and longer-term horizons facilitating investment and growth and rising productivity.

Ok 😂

It doesn’t really add much of worth, does it?

But they didn't carry on with immigration in the same way did they?

So far the numbers of immigration halved.
Increased skill workers salary for visa rules.
Ended families being able to come with those working or students.
Have to work for 10 years before can apply for permanent residency.
People have to speak better English here now.
Reduced the time graduates have to find a job
They have made a real effort to get through the huge backlog of asylum claims and are doing so.
Increased the removal of failed asylum seekers and offenders.
Increased staff to deal with asylum claims.
Changes being made to Refugee Family Reunion for successful asylum seekers.
Set up a new force.

Keir Starmer, the great Socialist, has a net worth of between £7 million and £15 million. You’ll find that most senior politicians in both main parties have great wealth compared with most of the electorate. Are you just singling out Farage because it suits your narrative?

Why do people keep writing this kind of inane nonsense and arguing against invented things that literally nobody has said and they have made up?

Who told you that you couldn’t vote for whoever you want?

I certainly didn’t so why are you directing this silly comment at me?

Not that I'm aware of. We had refurbishment of our library. Most importantly pot holes are being filled in.

Not interested in your ‘data’.

And nobody is supposed to be a meanie and question how reasonable or informed Reform voters are.