A chance to quiz the Tory Candidate at 7 pm for 7:30 till 8:30.
The chance to meet the Green Party candidate, same place, next Tuesday.
I went along and was reassured to find two conservative councillors there. Two more than at the Labour meeting!
With only one hour , too much time was spent by the Tory, running down Labour and talking in sweeping generalities than on answering the questions.
Sounded too much like traditional Tory "Laissez Faire".
"You're on your own mate" - Lift yourself up by your own bootstraps.
All right for the competent but how about providing a framework of support as well?
If you look at this guys blog, he spends a lot of time promoting Conservative polititions and their policies rather than inspiring activity himself for the area.
We have someone that will make a good cog in the party machine. As I find the machine unconvincing and opportunistic, the fact that we don't seem to have a candidate who thinks for himself is not promising.
I'm coming to the conclusion that my kind of person is extremely rare and is discouraged from getting involved with politics. The likes of Tim Farron, in any party, is very unusual.
I'm hoping that a good result for Tim in the next door constituency will show the rest of our bunch how the job can be done, so that he will inspire someone with potential for next time round.
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