Thursday, May 05, 2011

May 5th Local Elections and AV vote

The four years since the last local elections have gone by quick as a flash. I'll be voting today as usual with regard to how my local councillors have performed over that period and whether I feel the other candidates standing this time could do a better job. I'm sure other voters will be thinking the same.

Has your councillor been easy to contact? Have you seen or heard from them over the last four years? Do you know who they are? Are they willing to help a constituent on an individual case basis or do they just pay lip service to their party chief? Are they really standing for the good of their constituency and the people that live there or do they actually live many miles away and have no real clue about the area they are supposed to be representing? Are their interests purely self serving? Are they a paper candidate?

On the other voting issue I've had a good look at the arguments for and against and on reflection will be voting YES to AV.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're obviously a Labour voter then?