Sir Irvine P

The UK Independence Party are standing in all 28 council wards for the first time, does anybody think there will be a break through? Is anybody considering voting for them?

Council tax arrears only go to baliffs as a last resort, the customer usually has had a number of arrangments set which they have broken by not paying the arranged amount. These have usually gone on for months on end. The customer states that she has had a bill outstanding from 2009, thats three years of none payment! If the customer was in such dire straits then she would be entitled for council tax benefit Everybody else has to pay on time so why shouldn't she?

Maybe if the Lib Dem vote drops enough and the Tory vote holds up Dore could be a gain?

I think the interesting thing will be to note how the Lib Dems will be pushed back to thier traditional areas which you may say were the pre 1999 council win. Areas like Fulwood should stay Lib Dem. Also areas in the north around Loxley, the old south wortley ward ect should stay rock solid lib dem, especially in the parish elections. Seats such as Stannington will be interesting, a mix of Labour/Lib Dems and part of Cleggs constituency. I think they will suffer in 'new' areas such as Hillsborough ect

Thats kind of my point regarding Labour gains/Tory gains. The collapse of the Lib Dem vote will only really benefit the Labour party, the Tories won't really gain as people are not switching back to the Tories in areas where the Lib Dems are the opposition/vice versa for Labour.

The reason I ask is I wondered how bad Labour thought the Lib Dem vote would be and with this in mind if they were concentrating past 'target seats' and going on the offensive in more traditionally safe Lib Dem seats.

So the theme seems to be that these elections in Sheffield are going to be bad for the Lib Dems, I'm interested to know in which seats/areas? How bad are they expecting to do? Will this mean a come back for the Tories in Dore if the lib dem vote goes down or is it just going to effect seats where Labour is the main opposition in seats like East Ecclesfield. I personally can only see the Lib Dems being effected/losing votes in traditional Labour areas.

Lol, good old liberal answer. Lock them up, then they will not be in this gentleman's back garden helping themselves to his possessions. Make prison an austere place with daily hard physical labour so that the thought of going back to that stops them from offending.

Sir John! Like my career I thought you were dead! Gosh do you remember our binge drinking in the late 1970's when you were an MP and an MEP?! What larks we had! Regarding Hallam, majority of 10,000 in 1992...anybody could have lost it.

I haven't mellowed with age!

A glass of that pictured wine would be much more preferable than a tsk (another phrase that I had to google as I had no idea of the meaning!)

Jewish hotspot! It's for the Sword Dancing, it's a symbol that they make

Hitler did very badly in the 1928 German election, surely some comfort postie?

Not a very good result for anybody. Mr Postman, tone down the bitterness, you lost badly, get over it!

Oh ***** off with the you, your, you're bullsh*t