Sheffield Local Elections 2012

[digglydog 10]

http://www.sheffieldlibdems.org.uk/home/in-your-area/in-your-area-broomhill/. I think if you produced a graph like this in your GCSE maths you would struggle to get an F. The results were Lab 34.6% green 26.1% con 10% lib dem 27.2% ukip 2.1%.

Either they are really crap at maths or they are deliberately misleading.Hmmm ?

[digglydog 10]

This thread is not very lively at present so here's a question . What would you like your local councillor to be doing once they get elected. How do you want them to work for you ? No rude replies ,please.

[Fletch66 10]

This thread is not very lively at present so here's a question . What would you like your local councillor to be doing once they get elected. How do you want them to work for you ? No rude replies ,please.

I would like my councillor to listen to the community and react responsibly to their requests. It is important that everyone's voice gets heard and is projected through the elected councillor of that ward. Free speech is a right, not a privilege. Those that deny this are just dictators, and who wants to be part of a dictatorship?

[not wanted 10]

http://www.sheffieldlibdems.org.uk/home/in-your-area/in-your-area-broomhill/. I think if you produced a graph like this in your GCSE maths you would struggle to get an F. The results were Lab 34.6% green 26.1% con 10% lib dem 27.2% ukip 2.1%.

Either they are really crap at maths or they are deliberately misleading.Hmmm ?

It's been a tactic they have used for years. Because most sensible people only skim read political literature and have usually made up their minds they think it might subconsciously alter a few peoples votes.

I think vote2007 forum had a thread about the comical use of graphs by political parties and the Lib Dems were by far the worst.

 

This explains what they did in 2010 http://statscream.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/how-many-horses.html

Edited April 30, 2012 by not wanted

[chem1st 10]

I thought this was about next week's local election?

 

The TUSC are the only party to bother putting any information through our door this time. The leaflet outlines all the things they are going to do, like stop the cuts, stop any changes to the NHS, stop the cuts, stop the cuts. I've read nothing about anything they intend to change or implement, or how they are going to redistribute money in order to stop the cuts.

 

The TUSC candidate is a 21 year old student, and although I'm not ageist, I'd prefer to vote for someone with a little more life experience. As I don't have any info on any of the other candidates, for once in my life I may not even bother. I'm not very party political, and I don't base my vote on national government when it comes to local election time. I really don't get why people do that.

 

Personally, I want to vote for someone who genuinely wants to improve this area. But as we have some of the worst (and probably oldest) potholes in Sheffield, and as the funding for Hillsborough Forum was removed, I won't hold my breath.

 

It is

 

I vote by post. So as long as my vote reaches the polling station and is counted on Thursday, I have already voted

[cornfed_pig 10]

The Greens do have candidates on the website .I have just looked.You need to click on your area and then it tells you who the candidate is for that ward.Click on the name for their profile.

Yes, they have 28 seperate pages with a candidate on each page, as do the LibDems. They don't have a list though.

 

I apolopgise if I misinterpreted where the Walkley candidates, I mearly assumed by their. S6 post codes on the council website.

Almost all of Walkley is in S6, so wouldn't that suggest they do live in the ward then?

 

what does the average Councillor really know about, and can contribute intelligently to "the economic strategy for the whole city,housing policy, education, social services public health"

The average councillor, not everything, that's why they have a cabinet and shadow cabinet with portfolio holder who specialise in one policy area. As long as my local councillors know who to go to to get something done, I don't expect my councillor to know how the entire council works. That's the job of an elected mayor, surely!

 

(I've just had a "training session" showing me how to use the extra editing features on SF, so expect better spelling and grammar from me from now on )

Edited April 30, 2012 by cornfed_pig

[Ms Macbeth 76]

It is

 

I vote by post. So as long as my vote reaches the polling station and is counted on Thursday, I have already voted

 

Of course, I should have thought about that option.

 

I'm still waiting for some (any!) information about our local candidates. In previous years we've had quite a bit from several different parties. This time, apart from the one I mentioned earlier, zilch.

[SYorksDeano 10]

Of course, I should have thought about that option.

 

I'm still waiting for some (any!) information about our local candidates. In previous years we've had quite a bit from several different parties. This time, apart from the one I mentioned earlier, zilch.

 

Count yourself lucky. Around here we have still received none and it's now only a few days away before people can cast their vote

[Jim Graham 10]

This thread is not very lively at present so here's a question . What would you like your local councillor to be doing once they get elected. How do you want them to work for you ? No rude replies ,please.

 

I know exactly what I want my councillors to do because I have asked them a number of times and they have failed every time.

 

I want councillors to hold the management of the council to account when they fail as they so often do. When I have a serious problem with a council service that warrants an official complaint I expect my councillors to listen to the complaint and make sure the management deal with it. In my case my official complaint was ignored by the management and I had to go to the Local Government Ombudsman who eventually found I was right. My problem was with education and it was a very serious problem involving children. But my three Lib Dem councillors could not have cared less.

 

The problem with having three councillors is they can all pass the buck between them so you get nowhere. I would cull two of them and then you only have one who then has to take responsibility come election time. I would only have one councillor but at election time I would have two candidates from each party. That way you can vote for your party but not have to support the incumbent idiot if you don't want to.

[gems30 10]

i don't know who i'l be voting for really because i think there all full of broken promises.

[max 13]

I would like my councillor to listen to the community and react responsibly to their requests. It is important that everyone's voice gets heard and is projected through the elected councillor of that ward. Free speech is a right, not a privilege. Those that deny this are just dictators, and who wants to be part of a dictatorship?

 

How would you expect your councillor to act should there be a wide difference in expectation between one half of the community and the other? For instance, in planning issues where the business community would prefer more houses to be built to increase the footfall in their pubs, shops, post office, etc. but the residents prefer to keep the status quo?

 

Whichever group a councillor decides to support this will only reflect the wishes of a percentage of those who have actually expressed an opinion and thus the other group may claim that the overwhelming majority of the residents' views have been ignored.

 

Such is politics.

[Jim Graham 10]

How would you expect your councillor to act should there be a wide difference in expectation between one half of the community and the other? For instance, in planning issues where the business community would prefer more houses to be built to increase the footfall in their pubs, shops, post office, etc. but the residents prefer to keep the status quo?

 

Whichever group a councillor decides to support this will only reflect the wishes of a percentage of those who have actually expressed an opinion and thus the other group may claim that the overwhelming majority of the residents' views have been ignored.

 

Such is politics.

 

 

 

That is where a manifesto helps. If a party promise to boost business and jobs they can support the business community and point to their manifesto to evidence their support. Parties who produce vague, one size fits all manifestos struggle to please anyone because they have no focus and no plan.