Off Topic Lord Mayor

Especially ****ing reform Mayor's.

 

Suspect you're in for a shock. Mayoral elections will become the new protest vote now we don't have MEPs.

 

He was 15% in front in the last poll apparently.

 

No politics thanks Rover.
We need change. Hopefully the polls are right

 

We don’t have a Mayor today so there’s nothing to change

 

I just voted, off for a shower now as I feel grubby, it's the first time in my life I've voted tactically.

 

Needs a separate thread really but, this hits the nail on the head. It's sad how easy it always is for populists to gain ground with this vague "we need change" line, without it needing to make any sort of sense.

 

Populists with empty promises are relevant to City.

 

Reform - no actual policies, just soundbites.

Reform: ‘We’re going to nationalise the steel industry’.
Q: How are you going to pay for it?
Reform: We need change
Q: How are you going pay for it?
Reform: Immigration is out of control

 

Thought Labour got in by saying we need change.

 

They did. But they were quite clear about what that actually meant, and it was actual real policies.

 

And then went back on lots of them / did the opposite of what they said they would.... Let's not venture into politics in here as this is an important thread. But let's be fair, not one party in this country is actually any good

 

Dictated by Netflix dramas, apparently.

 

On the BBC national news kept mentioning Hulls mayor, one factor that doesn't seem to be taken into consideration it the (approx) 70K greater population of East Riding' , which is generally older and tends to vote Conservative...

 

What do you expect from Trump's BFF?

 

Which is why reform is doing so well cos people are sick of all the promises and bullshit

 

Too late not to venture into it. It can be moved or deleted but you can't expect one side to be allowed their say and the other not to respond.

In a way I agree about parties. I think the concept of parties is harmful to politics and makes things a bit of a circus a lot of the time. This mayoral election and the campaigning around it is an example of that. I'm voting for Mike Ross cos tactically it's probably the best chance of avoiding the worst possible candidate, but the leaflet his team put through my door the other day was a stream of absolute nonsense, deliberate misinformation even. But with the system we have and the candidates available, he's who I feel I need to vote for.

I don't think it's true Labour did go back on loads of promises though. I think that's just an easy line to chuck out at any party, and with a lot of the media hammering it day after day it spreads easily even if most people repeating it can't even explain what they mean.

The "all politicians are bad line" is always used to tar good politicians with the same brush as bad ones. We've had some absolutely rotten ones in recent years and they clearly all aren't all the same as that.

 

Genuinely, what are the promises and bullshit?

 

Who’s it gonna be??