UKIP & Independent County Councillors
Isn't it interesting how quiet things have gone locally following the County Council elections earlier this year. I remember reading the promises of the group of local Independent candidates and the...
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I shall be voting for anyone but the big three and specifically against spurious 20 mph limits and jacked up town parking charges Most councillors seem obsessed with roads and cars to the detriment of...
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I can only assume that we will be subjected to more of these political rants by ‘anonymous’ authors in the run up to the local and the general election in 2015. I’m ‘eagerly’ waiting to see what...
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The Conservatives may have taken note of the UKIP protest vote. So what have they done with the note? Obviously thrown it in the bin and carried on as before. So what was the protest about? In my...
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Blue is the color in this part of the country. I do not expect this to change. Maybe a small increase in UKIP or independent seats. Many voters simply do not care for local politics just go about...
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I'm currently reading a book about Democracy, in order to gain a better understanding of how politics works from town councils to national and devolved governments. I wonder even if the colour of this...
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Probably not but would send shockwaves through the Tory party. Safe Ex prime minister seat lost.
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Basil, Good point really well made however regarding expenses I think if you check you will see that all Town Councillors receive no payments or expenses so at a local level I think you will find...
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Rednek, As usual you make a very balanced and well reasoned argument, you clearly understand both local and National Politics therefore I would hope that you would agree with me that people should...
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Stneotstruth Same old same old. Local councillors do claim expenses, they sit on multiple levels of government. To elect any sort of representation is not a wasted vote, the only wasted vote is an...
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stneotstruth, The Conservatives haven't balanced the books on the Town Council. The previous Liberal Democrat administration not only balanced the books but left the incoming Conservative...
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[www.cambridge-news.co.uk] I'd personally hope they'd do the decent thing and stand down early and put themselves up for re-election now.
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But we hear so much how local elections should be based on the person, not the party. Which means they shouldn't stand down surely?? C
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Yeah they "should" be based on person not party but I doubt they are but clearly the person elected then has very different views now or they'd not have jumped ship? If so they owe it to the...
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When 'persons' stand and campaign as the candidate for a party they have nailed their colours to a party mast. People vote for them on the expectation that they will follow that party line and further...
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Parties are only ever accumulations of individuals, they don't have constant (or even self-consistent) positions on issues, and levels of internal discipline vary between parties and between strata...
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I must admit to playing Devils Advocate there - in my case, as someone that used to vote Tory & who will probably vote UKIP from now on, it wouldn't worry me. If it was a Labour or Lib Dem...
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The irony is if they had stood as UKIP candidates in May rather than independents then they might well have beaten Barry Stephen Chapman and David Harty Barry Stephen Chapman Conservative 1,312 David...
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