Local Elections 2012

The Local Elections are tommorow (including the ridiculous Mayoral elections and the London Mayoral theatre) and I wondered how people are voting if even at all. The nationwide parties (Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, UKIP and the Green Party) are fielding hundreds into the thousands of candidates for local council elections - of course, plenty of independents also standing across the country as well.

The latest poll is..

LAB 43%, CON 33%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 8%

So, how have you/are you intending to vote tommorow?

Not voting, only Lib Dem, Labour and Conservatives running in my ward.

Wth I haven't even had one of those cards through my door? :S I'm on the electrical roll so surely one should of come through but I swear it hasn't...

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Originally Posted by Catchy

Wth I haven't even had one of those cards through my door? :S I'm on the electrical roll so surely one should of come through but I swear it hasn't...

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same. nothing mentioning it has come to any of my houses, no one has spoken about it and haven't seen anything. first thing i heard about elections was that elections thread in spam earlier today but i just thought it was only scotland who had elections (idk **** bout politics) so was talking in general terms. just another reason for me to not bother voting anyway really.

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Originally Posted by dirrty

same. nothing mentioning it has come to any of my houses, no one has spoken about it and haven't seen anything. first thing i heard about elections was that elections thread in spam earlier today but i just thought it was only scotland who had elections (idk **** bout politics) so was talking in general terms. just another reason for me to not bother voting anyway really.

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I had my voting slips come in early April, maybe you have your ones but they've been misplaced. This election seems to of creeped up, other than getting the slips I haven't really heard a lot about the elections! I ahve no idea who is running in my area but I'll find out tomorrow :P

I haven't had any slips through the door either! :O How strange! and yeah I agree it has creeped up fast haha, I can't say I've really seen any advertising things either, normally they all send information about their causes and stuff through the post haha.

I just voted UKIP for Mayoral and spoilt my Local Council paper (a nice big X over it).

Didn't vote, only would have if I lived in London so I could vote for Boris Johnson

I know more about the ins and outs of the Boris vs Ken election than I do what's happening in my own town. Haven't heard of an election so not entirely sure if there is one in my town (although dont they all happen at the same time? lol I'm confused). It doesn't seem that long ago since the last one!

I should have read the poll properly, I would vote Ukip, but im not voting.

My mum voted for conservative party I think.

There was only 4 parties in my area: Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and The Green Party. All incredibly useless, but I voted Conservatives because he's an actual Conservative and not one of these "neo-politicians".

I'm still not old enough to vote (just a couple of months to go!) but we had Green Party, Lib Dem, Conservative, Labour and a bunch of racists that I forget the name of. Our Conservative candidate has always been Independent and admittedly, he's done good things for the area. It's a bit cheeky though because he moved to Conservative just before the election... he did the same a few years ago too so he's only doing it for the label. Our Labour candidate has apparently been involved in some fraud over the past couple of weeks too...

If I could vote I'd vote Ken for London Mayor and tbf I'm not sure what the other votes were for? London assembly I think which I don't know who I would have voted for because I didn't do ma research

Baroness Warsi has just compared UKIP to the BNP on BBC (kudos to BBC's Nick Robinson for picking her up on that), talk about making a dismal situation for the Tory Party worse - essentially "you are all racists, come back to us". I've never been more determined to see the Conservative Party destroyed, lucky I joined UKIP tonight then.

Oh dear, not a smart move. In other news, Baroness Warsi used to live on my street up until a few years ago!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Rozi

If I could vote I'd vote Ken for London Mayor and tbf I'm not sure what the other votes were for? London assembly I think which I don't know who I would have voted for because I didn't do ma research

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WHAT HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE BORIS JOHNSON

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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

WHAT HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE BORIS JOHNSON

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he's ok but I like Ken more
I've seen far more evidence of Ken being involved with London on a much grander scale then Boris who essentially focused on the square mile rather than London as a whole

plus Boris is ******* annoying

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"UKIP so far has achieved 1 win and 10 second places in the 21 seats we have stood in that have declared so far."

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I just saw on BBC a Tory MP say how previously-Conservative but now UKIP voters will come back regardless when asked what her party is going to do to get their vote, they still do not get it.

oh wow they actually had a win? those result are actually impressive, good job

We (me and my mum) wanted to vote UKIP, but there wasn't one standing in my word. So we voted Conservative.

In my ward we had; Green Party, Labour, Conservative, National Front and UKIP. I voted for Labour.

Labour already had my ward, but my council was Conservative and it seems like many - Labour had gained from the Tories.

The way people vote is so blinded. My old headteacher who "quit" pretty much single-handedly destroyed my old school with it going from very good to inadequate over ~5 years, got masses of negative press during his reign of terror from media with the students often protesting against him. Yet he was still elected as a councillor which was probably down to the fact he was running as a Labour candidate.

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Originally Posted by Rozi

I've seen far more evidence of Ken being involved with London on a much grander scale then Boris who essentially focused on the square mile rather than London as a whole

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lol, who cares what they actually do. None of them do anything, just Ken does a better job at pretending to do something. At least Boris looks hilarious when in public, e.g. olympics stuff.