Council elections – Green, Yellow or Red? April 24, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Camden , trackbackMy postal ballot arrived the other day, and I need to work out who to vote for in the council elections. I don't know any of the candidates particularly, and find myself faced with a dilemma when I think about it from a party political point of view.
I'm naturally a Green voter, though I disagree with them on Europe, and would vote for them. However, the three candidates in our ward are so much 'paper' candidates that they do not even have entries on the Green Party website. Its all very well to drag in anyone you can find when you're a small party, but is a paragraph or two of biography really that much to ask? This is despite the Greens having won a respectable 10% of the vote here last time round.
I'd find it very hard to vote Tory, so that really leave the Lib Dems and Labour. Is this really a good time to give Tony Blair a black eye over Iraq, at the risk of losing some very capable councillors? The Labour candidates are all strong, local to this part of Camden and seem to have good records on local issues, except the question of management of council housing, given that it was a Labour led council which tried to persuade voters to accept changing to an Arms Length Management Organisation.
The Lib Dem candidates don't look much more inspiring than the Greens. Only one has a biography on the Camden Lib Dem website and the other two are not even listed there.
This is a very strong Labour ward, with 47% of the vote in 2002, so it's unlikely my vote will make much difference. So, I think I'll vote at least one Green to encourage them, and then chose between the Labour candidates and the one Lib Dem who has a biography.
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