Analysis

1. Most people voted along party lines.

2. Given the choice for the first time for many years of several different parties other than Conservative or Labour then Conservative won out.

3. If people voted for the person, they didn't think much of Wendy.
With a track record over twenty years; the membership of Ford Park that knew her well; with her work for Dale Street School and her following in the Honeypot; she could only achieve some 400 votes.

4. The number of people who vote for the person is low suggesting that people prefer to vote for mirages of what they hope will be rather the reality that ultimately it will be a person who does the work.

5. Cameron is doing the classical strategy for a politician of saying nothing while the Labour Party tears itself apart. This way we can imagine that the future with "change" will be bright and rosy. Any sane observer knows that whoever is in charge we have a bleak future and it will be particularly bad with a group of people who are policy- less and have the moneyed classes manipulating the system to their advantage. The Bankers and big businesses like Tescos are rubbing their hands with glee that they are off the hook and will soon be the power behind the throne with the puppet strings in their hands.

6. The general public perhaps needs to be helped to think what is the consequence of their actions and of their inactions.

7. Those of us that like doing, need to get together and get on with it.
This is where we will enjoy ourselves and feel the satisfaction of achieving something even against the odds.

Summer is coming - lets enjoy it - together!

Anyone for a bit of communal :

Kite flying

Dog walking together (in Ford Park)

Pottery - making on the Market Square

Filming motorists on their mobile phones and putting them of Youtube

Lantern- making

Walking along in the rain and catching rain drops in our mouths (and bumping into people)

Music making

Gardening in the park near you

Going a walk up Hoad and saying hello to some and winking at others

Sending irate emails to public officials who aren't doing their jobs well

Dancing in the Square

Breathing smoothly

Telling teenagers to behave

Walking across the sands in a group with our eyes shut

Telling adults to behave (at 3am in the morning)

Sitting together in silence

Marching down the street banging drums and shouting

Talking to the neighbours

Picking up litter and dog shit

Walking down the pavement without treading on the cracks (you could seriously injure your health if you fail !)

Looking up into the trees and composing poetry and publishing it

Identifying ourselves with real names on blogs so that others can talk to us in the street

Sitting on the doorstep with a coffee, talking to passers by.

Any more for the list.

No griping, whingeing and slagging others off, thankyou.