The Democratic Process

[poliphilo]

 We were voting yesterday for a Police Commissioner. Nobody had done any leafletting so it was a case of voting for a party not a person. I suppose I could have done some research if I'd cared deeply enough.

The women at the polling station were all wonderfully smiley and polite- almost embarassingly so- and I had to make an effort to match them. But, why not?  This is how we should conduct our politics.

I voted LIb Dem. Their parliamentary candidate Josh Barbarinde seems like a good egg and one of the guys who works for him has been coming to the Meeting House. I have never voted Conservative and couldn't possibly vote Labour so long as Keir Starmer remains in charge....

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[cmcmck]

This was the only vote locally as we had council elections last year.

We didn't vote as not of of these people attempted to make themselves known. The previous time we had known one of the candidates, a local Sikh guy who runs one of the town cafés so we'd voted for him although he didn't win.

[poliphilo]

Like you, I think people who put themselves up for election ought to make more effort to make themselves known to the electorate

[cmcmck]

And as for Starmer, I've been a lifelong Labour voter but his appalling about turn on trans women has just lost them my vote.

[poliphilo]

He has done an appalling about turn on just about everything the Labour Party used to stand for....