Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for 10 years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
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Please note however, that The Labour Party is not responsible for the content of this website or individual posts as, unless specifically stated, I am writing solely in a personal and individual capacity.
National coverage of this week's elections is so presented that a visitor, reading our newspapers, listening to our radio and watching our television, might be forgiven for thinking that Thursday's elections are simply about our verdict on the Blair government and an interim judgment on the electoral appeal of Mr Brown or Mr Cameron. How about the possibly more boring but essential task of electing councillors to serve in a local-government system often bedevilled by national party politics, with whose aura you, among others, constantly surround local-government elections?
Richard Wilson
Beverley, East Yorkshire
Well, I'll drink to that.... (never one to pass up a chance)
It's not only the media that encourage this attitude of treating all elections as a beauty contest for the national party leaders. All of the party political broadcasts put out concentrated solely on the party leaders, and hardly mentioned the local elections.
In short the locals are going to be a verdict on Mr Blair, many people both Labour voters and those who dont vote Labour dont like him or the way he has driven Labour over the last ten years(be that right or wrong - not getting into that)
As for the councillors, well its good to cull off some of the dead wood every so often. To be fair there are a few down my way both Conservative and Labour who I would not vote for at gunpoint.
Still I hear a fat lady shall be singing tomorrow when the votes are counted.
May 2, 2007 10:39 AM | permalink
Richard Wilson? I don't believe it!