SO, DID you cast your vote at the local elections? It was a mite confusing don’t you think? Initially I thought I was voting to elect ONE councillor; then I understood I could vote for THREE but if I voted for TWO it might negate my ballot paper but it didn’t, so I could. It was all a bit bizarre.
I know my current councillor( Tory) and was happy to vote for her. Steve Carter (Labour) stood in my ward and he’s no push over so I voted for him. As for the rest, they could have been Martians for all I knew. Conservative and Labour did at least stick leaflets through my letterbox, the Lib Dems, true to form, did absolutely nothing. There was the obligatory Green party member, some bloke with a posh name together with a random pick and mix.
Reading the literature every candidate sounded the same. School governor, magistrate, three years on the council, rides a bike, makes all his own frocks yadda, yadda, yadda.
It was all a bit dull. Where was our Red Ken, Big Cyril or the Monster Raving Loony Party? (Come to think of it, where was Sir Nick?) The nearest I came to excitement was when my pencil broke in the polling booth. Surely we can do better than this?
The views expressed on this page are Vic Barlow's and not necessarily those of the Express
