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Discussion in 'Bristol City' started by realred1952, Apr 24, 2021.

  1. realred1952

    realred1952 Well-Known Member

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    have just received the postal vote application pack THERE IS LESS THAN A WEEK to get it filled in and sent back by! some peeps in the local care home have not yet received theirs!!!!!
    the last time we had mayoral elections and finished up Marv very few people voted! A Larger % of the electorate this time round have registered for the home vote …. so what happens should they not get it in time, cant get to polling station or post is delivered to late? [ due to lack of time between receiving /posting?]
    Marvin fought off there being mayor in charge of the 5 divisions [ didn't want N Somerset in the picture, kept to 4 ] has he a hand in sending out the postal votes??
    It will be a disaster should he get elected again … but who are we voting for? had nothing through door saying
    Hi I am so and so standing for ……………… had one phone call from a "labour prospect" who didn't have much knowledge that we... the people of Bristol owned Lulsgate airport but was sold in 2 stages and was supposed to have reduced kept the council tax low for x number of years … guess what it went up every year after and nothing to show for it ………. not many clues about the Metro … £m's spent and helps about 3-400 people get to Bristol am but have been replaced by peeps who took up the extra parking it so called freed up!
    didn't know BRISTOL CITY council had demanded all taxi's were resprayed! and paid a fortune toward the cost! Now want to charge a large sum of money to aid pollution [ metro system failed! ] reduction before most cars go electric or are under guide limits ………….. surely any prospect would know of these things?
     
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    TODAYS post and Tv interviews have been a real opener... in the post today a further 4 envelopes with info on electing a mayor … most postal votes will have been done by now so the voting forms sent were done blind as the info on who is who and their aims … in duplicated form only just been received …..
    We now have had an update on who is telling porkies and who wants to do what … MARVIN shouts from the house tops "promised 2000 new homes a year, and wants to carry on with 2000 new homes a year! " … it turns out the houses in the pipeline from red trousers reign and homes built ..plus any scheduled after May 6th to start will equal less than 1000 a year! during Marv's tenure.
    The people in Hartcliffe living in a housing scheme with black mould, in places mm's thick has again been put off ….
    for 3 years in Stockwood an area was cordoned off, a 6 foot high wall had partially collapsed and was in the SHOPPING CENTRE AND IN DANGER OF FURTHER COLLAPSE … eventually repaired by a company who charged about 7x [ after 2 local builders had offered to it apparently, and done a better job ] what it should have cost and the repair was real ROY ROGERS and lone Ranger stuff...
    I just hope we get a new mayor … a realistic one with no bias toward certain areas of our once fine city
     
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    realred1952 Well-Known Member

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    LOCAL and Mayoral elections.

    Sir Keir said he was "bitterly disappointed", but pledged to lead a fightback for his party and to set out a "bold vision" in the next few days.
    .. well so far he has not learned a lot!
    Corbyn was constantly ignoring the COUNTRIES plight at hand, and constantly digging at the "PM's" as leader of the opposition .. constantly trying for political points. Sir Keir has excelled the efforts of Jeremy in the slag them off dig up the dirt stakes ….
    People are not mugs, they appreciate that at times of extreme adversity the odd thing or comment will unwittingly occur. That often, [ we all do it .. impulse buy] , we raid shopping shelves! get what you can whilst it is still available, better to have and not want than to want and not have ! pay over the odds and survive! [within reason ].. Tesco's April 2020, shopping trolley goes past loaded with about 20 lots of chicken breasts and 30 or more lots of meat etc ...shelf is bare! ... I ask myself even today "is it wrong to remove a total of 6 packs of various chicken and meat products from this persons trolley?"
    Back to KEIR..LOL .. he spent 4 weeks and 24 questions to the PM about sleaze and cronies, whilst the PM and others spent the time getting over to the public the important things they will bring to the table in the on coming elections! THE reality is Dyson was not on the sleaze on the make he was being a business man... was giving to the cause the knowledge and manufacturing base to help hospitals with the unprecedented COVID patients cant breathe … how do I go about sorting my tax / expenditure etc .. tax avoidance is legal.. but don't want to mix the 2 [ evasion ] together! So needs to spend money on his flat ...property of the .gov … and thus you and I … who cares who pays for it. I would love someone to say to me " here is £20k redecorate your house..
    Thought :emoticon-0138-think .. maybe Sir K has [ had ] desins on moving in there in a couple years or sooner [ should his personal attacks on Boris succeed! ]
    The labour heartlands which he thought he was winning over have just given him a real thumping1 .. MAYBE he should have gone North east not Southwest to try and get a pint...

    We await the bold new vision … " ANOTHER ONE, as the last 4 or 5 have failed ….miserably" ..
     
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    we now have a tory police chief [ previously an independent ] Mayors vote starts Saturday … lets hope we get a change
     
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    Labour have had a monster battering across the country <laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh>
     
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    Yep you have got to love some of the total bullshit remarks from MP's.

    Diane Abbott said "they can't blame Jeremy Corbyn for the Hartlepool, we won it twice under him". Diane as usual had a mind freeze and failed to mention that they only held the seat because UKIP and then the Brexit party split the vote.

    And another MP stated "we are going in the right direction, we just need to get our message across better", f*** me I would love to see what happens when labour are going in the wrong direction.
     
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    I like the Labour comment, " We lost it because we are only talking to ourselves".
     
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    Sir K's body language and gait looks shattered … maybe he should go back to his other "not quite up to it" profession!
    His constant threatening of the Tory party has really backfired peeps usually respond to negative stuff? but attack a person who is doing his utmost to protect this country and you will fail....
     
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    people ain’t stupid Boris has got the country back on its feet and curbing Covid the country is moving in the right direction whilst the EU is in a horrendous mess.
     
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    So Keir 'I take full responsibility for the results' Starmer sacks Rayner as party chairman.

    But on the plus side somehow Sadiq 'I have made London a safer place to live' Khan was re elected, best of luck with that Londoner's.
     
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    OMG it gets even better for Stormer's leadership. He sacked Rayner as party chairman and she has refused to go, he has re instated her FFS, because the left threatened trouble, you couldn't make this **** up.

    At least now what most of us suspected about the labour party is true, the left are still in total control of everything and Stormer was a puppet whose strings are being manipulated by Momentum and the hard left.
     
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    The Labour party have been unelectable for me since Tony Blair left (well, since the Iraq war really).
    It's amazing that they get any seats at all - some people must think they are still worth their vote - or perhaps they are just habitual Labour voters who are following in their parents and grandparents footsteps with their voting habits......
    This is nothing to celebrate IMHO - I think it's a very bad and dangerous thing for Britain not to have an effective opposition to hold the government to account. Very bad indeed.
     
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    Sadly stuck with Marvin again... what a disaster for Bristol but I am not sure if the council is "hung" all votes were not in last time I looked PROBLEM WAS to many after the job, and vote splitting gave him the edge.. wonder how many votes did not get counted!!!!!
     
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    Agree with every word but how can you take labour seriously when today Diane Abbott has pretty much said that the party should go back to the Corbyn policies of 2019 FFS, policies that led to slaughter.

    The left totally control the party and if they do go back to the hard left they are finished.

    What labour doesn't get is normal working people (the people they claim to champion) don't give a **** about wallpaper or all of the woke revisionism, they care about day to day stuff like having bins emptied, labour only care about London and other big cities that they control and that is why they have lost their red wall.
     
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    It's sad but predictable in the socialist state of Bristol.
     
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    These were certainly factors, but I think that in the General Election, the red wall was breached because Boris Johnson promised to deliver Brexit. Corbyn wouldn't commit to anything - and Brexit was the biggest topic of that time. Interestingly, most of the Brexit votes came from traditional working class core Labour areas like the north of England.
    With these regional elections, I think people are rewarding the Tories for the success of the vaccination programme - and although I can't STAND Boris Johnson I have to give his party credit for that. It's been a shining beacon of success - although our reaction to the pandemic was very slow in the first instance.
     
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    Boris is like marmite, you either like him or hate him, he is a Johnson I personally like, compare him to the gutless reptile Corbyn or the pro EU whippet Starmer and you will understand why people are pissed off with Labour, Boris got Brexit done, Boris got the vaccination done.

    We just don't know what Labour stands for anymore, who leads it, what are their policies, how will they run the country, are they left or right, they are all over the place.
     
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    I haven't got any time for any politicians anywhere in the world, most are self serving ****houses.

    As for the reaction to the pandemic, I can only say to be fair we were flying blind, it was a new phenomena and with China trying to cover it up and the W H O complicit in that aim, things were always going to be difficult, I suppose the only hope is that lessons have been learned and will not be repeated, but like BCFC I doubt it.
     
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    .... He did. Whether it was a 'good' Brexit or just sold us down the river to be able to claim that he delivered it is for another thread.

    Now THIS I completely agree with.
     
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    Well let's put it this way, having lived in France for 16 years, the French only fully adhere to the EU laws that suit them, Macron has amazingly managed to make himself more unpopular than Sarkozi and Hollande and trust me that is an achievement.

    To save his cowardly ass before next years election, he has been tirelessly been attempting to stir up anti English feeling and it is backfiring, French people will not forgive him for sanctioning the destruction of over a billion sets of PPE several months before the pandemic broke, his and the EU's pathetically but typical bureaucratic vaccine roll out and what they view of what they consider the gradual Islamification of it's country. 54% now want out of the EU, along with Italy and probably Greece and a few others.

    Will Macron win? possibly, why? because his main rival will be Marine Le Pen but I suspect she will offer a Frexit vote and that might tip the scales. Macron is such a coward he will probably do a Cameron as well, he is so unpopular last year his prime minister and whole government resigned en massse.

    Historically the only French presidents not charged or investigated for corrupt practices in pretty much living memory are Pompidou and Hollande (although they are still looking at ways to do so with Hollande). The most corrupt of all is Sarkozi already found guilty of one set of corruption charges and due in court later this year over 2nd set of corruption charges.

    The 2nd set of charges relate to when he was mayor of Paris and he and Christine LaGarde paid a huge multi million euro bribe to the criminal Bernard Tapie. Christine LaGarde was found guilty of corruption within the last couple of years but the court bizarrely refused to hand down a punishment on her (perhaps she is grassing Sarkozi up over this, who knows?) but here's the thing Christine LaGarde convicted of criminal corruption was rewarded with being 'given' the job (because obviously none of the EU top jobs are elected) of president of the central European bank, you couldn't make that one up could you?.

    PS:- I see today as a follow on from retired French generals sending an open letter to Macron ignoring the perceived Islamification of France, serving French soldiers have sent him a letter stating civil war is brewing.
     
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