Election 2024

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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

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Horny 4 Hamas said:
Well yeah that’s the council. Pointless ****s arguing which biscuits to have at the meeting and whether Ethel’s bin collection should be moved to Wednesday because she does crochet club at the leisure centre on a Tuesday.
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That's definitely town councils, but local councils have quite a lot of power

Lots of meetings though.

I know my chap on the council really well, so it will be interesting to get his take on trying to work with Reform.
 
Saf said:
I’m not. I’m living in one and it’s worrying.

I have a feeling the one thing they’ll be doing though is ordering a proper investigation into these grooming gangs. That’s a good thing, I didn’t like the way Labour handled it (covered it up) where it was happening in these council areas.
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You can be our Guienea Pig mate <laugh>

Haven't the local councils already held an independent inquiry into the grooming gangs ?
 
PISKIE said:
You can be our Guienea Pig mate <laugh>

Haven't the local councils already held an independent inquiry into the grooming gangs ?
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**** knows. What was the outcome? How many people were sacked and how many people were turned over to the police?

Im going to guess 0.

Let’s have proper investigations where people are held to account. Young kids lives were ruined. Let’s go after all the people who knew and turned a blind eye or refused to act on it.

Plenty of Labour councillors should rightfully be ****ting themselves now.
 
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Saf said:
**** knows. What was the outcome? How many people were sacked and how many people were turned over to the police?

Im going to guess 0.

Let’s have proper investigations where people are held to account. Young kids lives were ruined. Let’s go after all the people who knew and turned a blind eye or refused to act on it.

Plenty of Labour councillors should rightfully be ****ting themselves now.
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I think there was a whole raft of recommendations that were made and the last Govt just sat on it.

I think that's why Starmer has been saying they need to implement them now, rather than have another inquiry as that will just delay stuff

As for criminal convictions, I think lots of the perpetrators were locked up.

As for local councillors, I don't know mate.
 
PISKIE said:
I think there was a whole raft of recommendations that were made and the last Govt just sat on it.

I think that's why Starmer has been saying they need to implement them now, rather than have another inquiry as that will just delay stuff

As for criminal convictions, I think lots of the perpetrators were locked up.

As for local councillors, I don't know mate.
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**** the recommendations mate. It was covered up by these councils. Any of the ****s that were responsible for letting the bairns suffer and not intervening, I want to see their heads stuck on a spike outside every council office.
 
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Saf said:
**** the recommendations mate. It was covered up by these councils. Any of the ****s that were responsible for letting the bairns suffer and not intervening, I want to see their heads stuck on a spike outside every council office.
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I don't know how you retrace the steps about which councillors knew what, at what time. But yeah I agree that if there were people who knew what was happening and tried to cover it up, then they need to face criminal charges.
 
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BobbyD said:
Even if you are a postal voter, if you haven't posted it you can just rock up and do it in person.

Will be interesting how reform do in actually managing local councils.

As some have said if they approve of some mass land house building and override the nimbys thats a plus in my book.

If they bankrupt a load of councils then at least the local people will know what they are in for if reform get into power
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KCC forecast a shortfall of £144M under the Tories, I can't see how any party will turn that around.

Seems adult social care is the problem and it will need government to address that...

https://news.kent.gov.uk/articles/t...c-leader-tells-councillors-as-budget-approved

“The bleakest picture of all remains in adult social care. An area that remains under severe pressure, an area of structural flaws in terms of policy which only Government can actually address.

This Government could say, with some justification, that successive administrations of whatever party have failed and fudged this issue. Nonetheless in these last 7 months we have seen a lethal cocktail of policies that make this so very much worse.

“Cost increases, in particular in terms of employer’s national insurance, as well as increases in the national living wage, we have taken together, giving an 11% increase in providers’ costs and presenting a real risk to the stability of that sector.
 
BobbyD said:
Didn't even know there were local elections on. Normally they send a leaflet or something to your address don't they?
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Not everyone has a local election mate, some will be held in a different year. So for example Medway Council was in 2023.
 
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Saf said:
**** knows. What was the outcome? How many people were sacked and how many people were turned over to the police?

Im going to guess 0.

Let’s have proper investigations where people are held to account. Young kids lives were ruined. Let’s go after all the people who knew and turned a blind eye or refused to act on it.

Plenty of Labour councillors should rightfully be ****ting themselves now.
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Probably because the police were turning a blind eye, and that was nothing to do with the council* , just as they used to about the same type of situation around care homes years ago as all they ever did was return the children back to the home .

* but yes council staff should face the consequences but the problem was wider than just them .
 
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PISKIE said:
I don't think the two are exclusive, they can be a protest party and still get plenty of votes to win more MPs.

They cash in on people's fears and frustrations, which is well played copybook, but it works.

When you actually look at what Reform stand for, they are the enemy of the working class, but playing on fears about immigration and blaming migrants for crumbling NHS, lack of schools, GP appts, poor housing etc etc is something that always chimes with those who aren't well off.
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I see... So it's just mainly poor people who are racist far right idiots with fears.

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pieguts said:
I think you only have to look at the US to see that Reform could do well. Farage is exactly the same as Trump in that he takes peoples concerns and amplifies them to fit his agenda. I saw Farage on the box this morning and the first thing he mentioned was immigration. The sad reality is that he doesn’t have a clue how to solve it. If there was this golden bullet, I’m pretty sure it would have already been implemented.
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The golden bullet is simple.

Gun boats on the shores shooting invaders.

But our army is busy doing thier real job of protecting the establishments interests in Ukraine
 
Probably too easy for people to come over in a boat.

What we should really do probably create a floating island in the atlantic ocean and throw all the asylum seekers there until they are processed (or throw them on the isle of wight).

Really we want to be setting up processing centres not on uk shores but since we wont do that so i guess the alternative is some illegal migration ghetto until they are processed.

I wouldnt be against.
 
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