05-05-2024, 08:47 AM in response to #44617
He was such a fucking weasel about HS2 that I'm delighted he's lost.
05-05-2024, 08:47 AM in response to #44617
He was such a fucking weasel about HS2 that I'm delighted he's lost.
05-05-2024, 08:55 AM in response to #44632 05-05-2024, 08:56 AM in response to #44632 05-05-2024, 12:19 PM in response to #44625 Lenny Baryea Wrote: "He has caused chaos, and he loves it. Off the back of widespread anger and frustration over the mainstream parties' reluctance to go all in on Israel over Gaza and demand an urgent ceasefire, he launched a pro Palestine campaign that's gone viral ... In Birmingham, more than 42,000 people, largely in inner city areas of East and West Birmingham, gave him their backing. It meant the Labour vote tanked in some areas that had previously been all red, just when it ought to have been free to capitalise on distaste for the Conservative Party" This didn't happen, as Nosense Potty said it wouldnt 05-05-2024, 04:20 PM in response to #44718 05-05-2024, 08:50 PM (This post was last modified: 05-05-2024, 08:52 PM by Fola Onibuje.) in response to #44636
It's a shame to be elected to office you (normally) have to be affiliated to a party.
Andy Street was easily the most qualified candidate and if he could have run as an independent and won he would have - but without the 20% core of Tory/Labour voters who only ever look at the party name, it is futile. Would be an interesting experiment to run a Mayoral contest between six independents each standing on their own proposals, with no party affiliation. Would probably lead to a better standard of elected representatives too. 05-05-2024, 09:40 PM in response to #44779 Fola Onibuje Wrote: It's a shame to be elected to office you (normally) have to be affiliated to a party. I agree with the former statement but would imagine turnout to be so bad you couldn't describe it as democratic. It would be the equivalent of student union elections and me voting for the candidate that I either knew or failing that thought was the fittest. 05-05-2024, 10:03 PM in response to #44779 05-05-2024, 10:07 PM in response to #44791 |
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