Here we go again. The election of candidates for the County Council take place at the beginning of May in two weeks time.
Both the Conservative and Labour literatures for the upcoming election for County Councillor make democracy a farce.
On the basis of what has been printed, no inteligient person would vote for either party.
The literature I've received so far is full of claims that the other party is terrible and full of dodgy claims of action in the past. It lacks positive statements of what the candidates propose to do on the County Council in the future and reliable information about what they have done in the past.
In these days where easy communication throughout the year is possible between politicians and their electorate, the candidates do nothing of value. One would expect to be kept informed about what they are attempting to do in various committees using a blog like this, which is so easy to set up; they could set up pages on Facebook; they could use Twitter. Instead they refuse to communicate except now when they insult us with rubbish that most of us sensibly put in the bin where it belongs.
Yes James Airey uses Twitter however I've never read anything there that tells me of what he does politically: it's full of his own personal activities and how terrible the Labour party is.
The Labour party does nothing that I'm aware of. Yes they have a web site but can I find out anything about the upcoming election :No. You will be told that the election is on May 3rd when actually it's on Thursday May 2nd. The Ulverston Conservatives don't even have a web site.
The Greens do have a web site but no mention of the current elections.
If you put "Ulverston Liberal Party" into Google you're told about the the Green Party !
So what hope for democracy when the electorate have to make decisions without useful information.
It's time for a new type of polician who will keep us well informed and be honest with us. Not one who produces garbage about how terrible the others are, and makes claims of action when in fact they are almost totally out of touch with what most us want to see happening and do nothing useful on the various councils. Not one who thinks it's only worth talking to us in idiot poli-spiel at election time. Then politics can start to work for all of us.
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Talking to the guys at the Stan Laurel last night :
"Will you be voting this time? "
"No . They are all a total waste of time and squander our money."
"Democracy? What's that?"
Some then got quite angry about the behaviour in the past, for instance the spending of the million on Hoad Monument and waste of good benches from inside the building that ended up in a skip.
There is definitely a mood for a new kind of politician. Many wanted an option on the voting slip:
'None of the above'
I got a voting card which immediately went into the bin. I N EVER vote in so called "county" elections. I have no interest whatsoever in the man made monstrosity that is Cumbria. I have no interest in Carlisle, much as they have no interest in us. Is there anybody out there who actually knows what a unitary authority is and who might be interested in campaigning for one hereabouts?
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