Okaaaay

I remember being pretty impressed when I could vote for the first time

It is amusing reading the postal ballot forms... They kinda have to make them idiot proof and so to those of us who have a few brain cells to rub together the instructions do seem rather stoopid. Having said that i did get a bit confused about what envelope had to go in which and stuff

Did you get a grey local paper with 'you can vote for up to three candidates' on it too?

Liverpool's pretty much a no-brainer when it comes to local elections anyway

The last time I voted you, had to pick 2 of the 4 candidates, 2 of which were labour and the other 2 being conservative .

So I decided to go for the lesser of two evils and vote for one of each. That way I don't feel responsable for putting yet ANOTHER useless person into office.

Monster Raving Looney Party... please come back!!!

Ah, reading back on this i can see why a lot of people think I'm drugs....I'm still excited though and yes, I'm STILL laughing about the ballot paper being white

I was exciting about my first time too

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by DJ Billy
Did you get a grey local paper with 'you can vote for up to three candidates' on it too?

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I did im struggling to find 3 candidates worthy of voting for.

These are the first elections in about six years that I haven't been working almost full time on... I dropped out of active politics last year and I don't miss it even a little.

Down here in London we've got the Euro elections, the London Mayor and the Greater London Authority - no local council elections.

That means four ballot papers (two of them for the GLA), all in different colours, which promises total chaos and it's NOT MY PROBLEM!

Glad your first time went well Yally. Mine was voting in my parents' mate at the end of the road for the local ratepayers' association a couple of years back ... now I get weild the power of the gravy train ... I mean ballot for the Euro Parliament.

Still waiting for my first "proper" election: tho ironically my vote in the Euro election, with PR, it going to make more difference (I live in a safe Labour seat).

Crikey, so jaded for one so young!

My first time being able to vote was actually for a general election, and I think I cared as much then as I do now. I did get a balot thing the other week, but I've either put it 'somewhere safe' (i.e. never to be seen again until I tidy this place up) or I chucked it in the bin...

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by JtB
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I did im struggling to find 3 candidates worthy of voting for.

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I have no idea who our candidates our - we seem to have lack of information in our area

We have local elections here, haven't seen one labour board but there's massive Conservative boards everywhere, and quite a few Lib Dems too. I cannot vote yet but I'm campaigning for the Green Party!

(Edited by lizzieslayer 02/06/2004 10:16)

Its really important to remember that the issues involved in voting for your local council are completely different from the issues around the government.

I know a lot of people who would normally vote Labour are planning on voting for the Lib Dems this time round because of the Iraq War issue. If this means that the Lib Dems pick up enough seats to control my local council then our local recycling collection will be abandonsed and a lovely big incinerator will be built on my doorstep - and naff all will happen about the national situation

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by Sydney
Its really important to remember that the issues involved in voting for your local council are completely different from the issues around the government.

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Not from the pamplets Ive got through they seem to be exactly the same as the partys they represent, quite a few of the independent candidates standing in my area were previously labour candidates who no longer feel they are in line with the party.

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by JtB
(quotes) quite a few of the independent candidates standing in my area were previously labour candidates who no longer feel they are in line with the party.

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You've just proved Syd's point there, mate - you have candidates to vote for who *aren't* the same as all the rest, they've made a stand based on their principles. Or gone off in a sulk, depending on your point of view. But anyway, some of your candidates are sharply differentiated from some of your other ones...

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by Sydney
If this means that the Lib Dems pick up enough seats to control my local council then our local recycling collection will be abandonsed

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It's strange how parties differ from council to council, because the Lib Dems in Liverpool are big on recycling.

They should be a shoe-in for re-election here. The only relatively serious competition are Labour, and they're unlikely to get in because the mess they made in the 80s through Hatton is still fairly fresh in the memory of a lot of people.