please empty your brain below
Here in the LB of Bromley we are having to take proof of identity with us to vote,as part of a 'trial'. For this we have had numerous reminders, but very little information about who the candidates are! I'll have to take my reading glasses with me in the hope that I'll discover who will get my vote. 🤓

Jo W | 03.05.18 - 7:21 a.m. | #

Here in LB Newham we will blindly give the mayoralty and probably all 60 seats to the same party.

The only votes that matter were for Labour selections months ago.

| 03.05.18 - 7:50 a.m. | #

Here in Sutton the contest is between LD and Cons. The other parties don't even canvas or leaflet.

The (essentially ceremonial) mayor is chosen from the party with the majority.

RayL | 03.05.18 - 8:41 a.m. | #

Labour should do well in London - but with the next General Election now 4 years away, instead of 2, it won't matter much.
in the meantime... <snip>

Still Anon | 03.05.18 - 9:02 a.m. | #

I'm jealous of the range of candidates you could choose from. We have three - Labour, Conservative and Thurrock Independent (ex-UKIP). It seems the Lim Dems have given up here.

Amanda | Homepage | 03.05.18 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Prediction is that the LDs hold Sutton, but the Cons are in with a chance as a lot of disillusioned voters could switch to Labour from LD. I doubt Labour can get a significant win, but the erosion of LD support could get the Cons in. And I can be partially to blame if it happens. Team Orange have made a right balls-up of it the past 2 years and I'm not afraid enough of a Tory government at the borough level to keep supporting the LDs just to keep Torys out. (Different story with the local LD MP and Parliamentary elections)

Chz | 03.05.18 - 10:31 a.m. | #

I have no idea who is standing in my council ward other than the existing Labour councillors. Not a single leaflet from the Tories or Lib Dems which perhaps suggests they think they don't stand a chance in Waltham Forest. I'm in two minds as to whether to vote anyway - if the parties can't be bothered to engage with the voters then why trek to the polling station?

PC | 03.05.18 - 10:38 a.m. | #

For the benefit of PC and others.

If you want to know your candidates and what they are standing for try this site. Pop in your postcode and the details come up...

https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/

ap | 03.05.18 - 10:55 a.m. | #

In my part of the world, I've had my voting card and nothing else. I had to use AP's link to find out who's standing.

Jon Jones | 03.05.18 - 11:15 a.m. | #

Too late for today's vote, but anyone who might feel disinclined to "trek" to the polling station can generally apply for a postal vote - you no longer need to be actually housebound, or indeed provide any reason.

As for disillusion with political parties - my take is that however bad they are, the alternative (dictatorship) is even worse.

Malcolm | 03.05.18 - 11:28 a.m. | #

I've only had a couple of flyers from one party, with an e-mail this morning reminding me to vote 'tomorrow', and one from another which only mentioned their candidates in small print on the penultimate page... nothing from the other two parties that AP's link tell me have candidates standing

Jeremy | 03.05.18 - 11:29 a.m. | #

I've been gerrymandered! I used to be in College ward with 3 local councillors; now I'm in Dulwich Wood ward and I'll only have 2.

solar penguin | 03.05.18 - 12:14 p.m. | #

If Biggs didn't make big damage then stick with him. Otherwise Bagshaw seems not a bad idea.

The 20mph zone thing is a big turn-off of whoever needs to drive.

Patrickov | 03.05.18 - 1:18 p.m. | #

I have had one Labour candidate call at my door, and 1 flyer from an Independent.

John | 03.05.18 - 3:18 p.m. | #

I'm liking the sound of that Health and Well-being Shuttle. Hopefully it has enough capacity for the entire Tory empire, their followers, acolytes and assorted hangers-on and has a pre-programmed one way route to hell.
*And relax*

drD | Homepage | 03.05.18 - 3:42 p.m. | #

It IS important that we all vote, even if that's just to spoil the paper. The alternative to not voting is to let in people you'd never have voted for. It's a cliche but no less true that people died for us to have a vote.

Nothing's perfect but letting disillusionment win is giving in. Political change is geologically slow but it does happen - look at Attlee after WW2.

Please, please get out and vote. It does matter, and a spoiled vote is still a vote.

Joel | 03.05.18 - 5:19 p.m. | #

"The 20mph zone thing is a big turn-off of whoever needs to drive."

It might be for motorists, Patrickov, but it isn't for pedestrians ......

Brian | 03.05.18 - 6:29 p.m. | #

I've had lots of literature from all the parties standing here (Redbridge) and visits from most of them including 3 Labour canvassers going along the road doorknocking at 6pm today (polling day). It's a new ward following boundary changes, that may be why I seem to be getting much more propaganda than usual for a local election.

amber | 03.05.18 - 6:32 p.m. | #

In Richmond I am used to a Conservative/Lib Dem two horse race with no councillors from any other party for as long as I have lived here, only two sets of leaflets for local elections and only ever two people with rosettes outside the polling station. This year I got campaign literature from Labour (proclaiming their European credentials unlike Zac Goldsmith) and the Lib Dems and three people were taking polling cards outside.

Sprout Eater | 03.05.18 - 7:09 p.m. | #

Tower Hamlets already has a 20mph speed limit. Ciaran wants to enforce it better.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.05.18 - 8:37 p.m. | #

>>Here in the LB of Bromley we are having to take proof of identity with us to vote,as part of a 'trial'

I wonder what the legality of that is. If you don't have "proof of identity" would it be legal of them to prevent you from voting?

dg writes: Yes, alas.

None | 04.05.18 - 2:22 p.m. | #











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