Off Topic Lord Mayor

Andrea Jenkyns, Reform Mayor of Lincolnshire will be on hand for on the job training, they could develop a strong partnership for our region, pull some funds our way from the ridiculously over funded North West.

 

Bit of a leap, if not inflammatory.

 

Just trying to tease out what he was suggesting. Seemed to think whatever that was wouldn't be part of a decent debate

 

If we are relying on Andrea Jenkyns to look out for anyone who’s not Andrea Jenkyns we are in trouble

 

Oh ye of little faith.


Don't think it'll make page 8, mind.

 

'stop the boats' was a stupid thing to say', that's why Starmer hasn't made the mistake Sunak made and hasn't said it.

 

Ah, ok. Though didn't Iceland do the same in the cod war?!

 

You want them to do something that you can't even mention on the thread ?

That doesn't sound good

 

If it was just about suitability then how come Mike Ross was up for the job? Can anyone honestly say he has done a decent job of being the leader of Hull City Council? All I've see him do is unpick the splinters from his arse from sitting on the fence. The Labour candidate seems to be campaigning on the fact that she once lived in Hull, and Luke on the back of being a local lad who has done well for himself, so I'm forecasting Luke Campbell will get the vote simply because the opposition is so piss poor and people do actually want a change and are sick of not being listened too by the two 'main' parties so are willing to give a newcomer a chance.

 

I think he did say he was going to stop the boat men during his campaign.

Starmer strikes me as a bit of an opportunistic weasel if I’m being honest. He wouldn’t even define what a woman was until the Supreme Court ruling recently and then he ‘welcomed’ the decision. He’s a guy who waits to see which way the Overton window shifts and follows it. If the Supreme Court ruled the other way, he’d come out heavily in favour of transgender rights and start handing out five-year jail sentences for transphobic tweets.

He is ‘I have principles, but if you don’t like them then I have other ones’ personified.

 

Did he smear and undermine him or did he just report what he did in the campaign? Did he say anything that was untrue or subjective?

If Campbell not turning up to the hustings and not having answers to the key issues sounds a bit negative, that isn't the fault of the person reporting it.

 

"Smash the gangs".

 

'Starmer strikes me as a bit of an opportunistic weasel': a politician, then.

 

The same Starmer who got them the hand-outs? Let the traffickers further perpetuate the story, the streets are whittington like paved with gold.

 

The Labour candidate is away with the fairies, she promised that every pothole would be fixed, yeah.

 

It was easy to read Angus's hidden narrative, the Hull Story was more blatant, the only candidate I bumped into out campaigning on the streets was Luke in Hessle on Monday.

 

Not sure how I feel about Ross really but agree that the candidates aren't a brilliant selection and their campaign angle are weak.

But on your last sentence, again, if it really is about wanting change and being sick of the status quo as you and others say then there are parties who genuinely do offer that, with policies totally different to what we have in the mainstream now. But people who say that actually seem to be drawn to Reform, who's policies and interests are a more extreme version of the Conservatives and whose main campaigning point is small boats, just as it was with the Tories for the last few years of their time in power. It isn't really about change is it?

 

Who does one vote for

If you hate the tories
But are anti mass immigration

Asking for a friend

 

Greens are a non-option for me. It’s just sixth form politics. The campaign against nuclear energy by European Green parties in the UK and Germany especially has been one of the most self-destructive decisions in the fight against man-made climate change. France, to their credit, didn’t let these tree-hugging hippies influence their energy policy. The UK Greens are also just exceptionally moronic.

 

Andreya Jenkins, the former Tory politician - is not change. Lincolnshire voting for her is the very opposite of change - it’s returning to the politics of the last 15 years.

I expect Luke Campbell to win today, which is sad. He’s not the leader the area needs. Our area has been crying out for an industry since the collapse of fishing. We have one in renewables and the first chance we get we vote for a mayor of a party that’s not as friendly to the renewable industry as others.

It feels like a massive missed opportunity to me. Although I agree the selection of candidates in this election was very poor and likely pushed more people to vote Reform.