Politics

[redfiona99]

Local politics at that.

For obvious, Brexity, reasons, people are saying that, this time, you should choose who to vote for based on national politics, especially as Brexit will affect everything.

Firstly, this obsession with the national level is why local politics is in the ineffective and paralysed state it is in.

Secondly, it is noticeable that the people saying this didn't live through a 3 month bin strike and related rat population explosion.

Matters are really not helped where I am by having to vote for two people and the party I will vote for only putting up 1 person. So my other options are 1) the party responsible for the bin strike, 2) a party whose response to the bin strike is so blindingly stupid that I don't even have words or 3) a party whose housing plans are ... so blindingly stupid that I don't even have words.

I really wasn't joking about the state of local politics.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Do they not accept partial votes? For the Federal Upper House and in some states of Australia (but not mine, bah humbug) for state or local voting you can just select the people you want then stop. Also, definitely don't vote for people who caused or are too stupid to deal with a bin strike!

[redfiona99]

That's what I did. Matters were also helped by the party I voted for being the only one to put up a candidate that even lives in the ward. I am not as much of an extremist as my Mum on the matter, but really, they had two spaces and couldn't find a single one.