In the town where I was born! https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/wha...ing-blue-yellow-submarine-eurovision-26856331
Do you realise that nobody has voted for Starmer yet (or Sunak for that matter). We have just had some local elections for councillors to hold the purse on local areas not to elect a leader of the country
I hope your Labour run bin collectors arrive on time but we're still stuck with Rashid Sanook little has changed
They haven't really taken part at all for decades, apart from in the local villages, where they lost overall control. It does make me laugh to read people using national policy to decide who is best to empty their bins. Some people really don't know what they're voting for. Even when this was supposedly a labour stronghold, in real numbers they only got a few thousand votes that could maybe add up to about 7% of the available, and that's possibly influenced by the visiting students anyway. Most other people seem to think politicians of all flavours are a waste of effort.
I guess if you were desperate, you could view it that way. The last tory round here wasn't true blue anyway. Locally the Lib Dems are far and away the best option. In general, they focus on listening to people and providing the services people want rather than getting too wrapped up in party politics.
Having lived in a variety of areas covered by different regimes, my experience of local politics is that the tories seem to see it as an ego trip, and play at being big time Charlies and try to play at being nationally important. Labour try to act as a voice for the Labour movement rather than looking after local issues, and the national party fragmentation generated local issues. The greens were just one trick ponies that thought they knew more than the experts. Independents get swallowed up and sidelined They all left it wide open for Council Officers to run things how they felt best, irrespective of what they electorate wanted. As I mentioned, the Lib dems seem to be the only ones that actually understood their role as representatives of local people on local issues. One failing with that approach is it tends to be slow moving, and lacking in leadership. All very sweeping generalisations, and I'm sure there are some very notable exceptions in all of the groups.
It might be a slight indication things aren’t going all that well in ****-infested, foodbanky England and people care more about the price of staying alive than whether or not someone who used to be a bloke can swim against women.
