[Closed] Anybody else a candidate and HATING the waiting today?

Not entirely sure I can now. I know we can't deliver things today. I might have to wait till after 10pm

Yes, I'd avoid jeopardising your chances now, it does all seem slightly draconian what you can/can't do around voting!

Actually, I quite like the way the Spanish have a whole day before polling day where no parties can work, to let people "reflect"

Rachel

Can't deliver stuff today? Michael Moore leaflet through my door around dawn this morning. Not that I was going to but definitely not voting for him after being woken at that time.

You can campaign on election day but not such that your causing problems near polling stations

Actually, I quite like the way the Spanish have a whole day before polling day where no parties can work, to let people "reflect"

That's the theory, anyway.

Good luck Rachel, just voted Greens here. (not norfolk).

What's the electorate like in your neck of the woods, OP? I know, you love them, they're the best etc etc, but is it likely/unlikely that you'll get in?

All the best. Greens are probably the nicest people around IMO. 😉

Well done, I voted Green today 😀

Greens are probably the nicest people around IMO.

I agree, I just wish they were standing in my area. (Con, Lab, LibDem, Plaid, UKIP. Jeez, what a choice.)

Rachel, just going back in this conversation, what are the best ways of spreading your message these days? I have never been on a local politician's website and haven't actually had many leaflets through the door. The closest I've come to speaking to a candidate was the Labour dimwit standing at the school gates the other day. (Yeah, let's have a chat about politics while my kids charge around my legs..)

I'm assuming that social media use is increasing? Do most people just assume they know your policies?

Can I doff my cap at you Rachel for having the courage to put yourself forward to serve your local community. I wish you much success and envy your public spirit.

PS Voted Green in local election.

Me? Oh no - I thought I spotted Mari Williams earlier (our local Labour candidate) she looked nervous, we're in a very marginal seat - last time around the Tories got 17860 votes and Labour were second with 17666.

I suspect She'll win, last time around there were a lot of Lib Dem boards in peoples gardens, a few Labour and a lot of Conservatives - I haven't seen a single Lib Dem board this time, it's a sea of red with a few islands of blue and a singular ukip board. Our MP has a bit of a buck-tooth smile and some naughty, but funny people have taken to defacing some of his posters with carrots.

Open question, are there a lots of boards about where you live? You can't move for them here - people really do seem to want to promote their chosen team - on the main commuters roads near me more houses have boards big and small in their gardens than have none.

P-Jay you live near me then as she is also my candidate 🙂

I think she will also win - it'll only take a small swing nationally for Labour to regain the seat and I think they're on for one.

can i just ask a serious question as a naive voter please?

say you wanted ed miliband to win election cos you thought his policies would be best for britain. yet youre in rachels 'ward'(?) and think she'd do more for your local area, or you hated your local labour bod.

who do you vote for? spose what im asking is.....do you vote local or national?

[EDIT] this has been my one and only election post, just something i wondered the other day. on the whole i try and stay away from it all.

That's a very difficult question which doens't really have a good answer!

Not a candidate but hopefully I will be re-electing my boss to Parliament.

who do you vote for? spose what im asking is.....do you vote local or national?

She is standing as a councillor so will have no impact on Miliband's likelihood of becoming PM.

good luck, if you'd stood here I'd have voted for you anyway if that helps..

Surely if you need help editing web-sites, generating false twitter followers and bogus endorsements ...
Grant Shapps(Cons) is your go-to guy for that !!

sadexpunk - Member

can i just ask a serious question as a naive voter please?

say you wanted ed miliband to win election cos you thought his policies would be best for britain. yet youre in rachels 'ward'(?) and think she'd do more for your local area, or you hated your local labour bod.

who do you vote for? spose what im asking is.....do you vote local or national?

[EDIT] this has been my one and only election post, just something i wondered the other day. on the whole i try and stay away from it all.

Agreed, it's tricky - I've always thought a lot of people who'll stand for Parties other than Lab/Con - you don't join the Green Party hoping to be PM one day, so you can probably remove the "lust for power" bit of their drive for standing, but..

Ultimately maybe not tomorrow, but in a week or so either Ed or Dave will be PM, of that there is little doubt - and the party in power will usually have more of an impact on your day to day life than the party of your MP and if you want your local area to matter to Westminster, you're better off having an MP as a member of the ruling party - actually it's better to be in a marginal seat - safe seats no one really cares about.

HOWEVER, the main parties do carefully consider how many votes the smaller parties get and it can influence their polices, partly to counter the chances on these smaller parties becoming bigger in the 90's and 2000s the Green Party grew, so the main parties cared more about environmental policies, now UKIP is on the rise you hear more about immigration and Europe from the main parties.

If you vote for Rachel, she may not win (hope you do Rachel, you seem nice) but the overall number of green votes this time around will influence the government - a green surge (which is expected) will push Green Party style policies forward with the Government.

[quote=allthegear ]that website is bloody awful - locally, we'll do our own next time and not use the centrally supplied tools

Well to be fair, this one isn't a lot better 😉
http://www.drupal.org.uk/

Good luck and we'll done for getting involved.

[quote=DezB ]

Anybody else a candidate ...?

Found another one http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/polling-day-then/page/4#post-6893969

My brother is a candidate for the local council in my home town it is a ward where it has been said if you pinned a red rosette on a pig they would elect the pig unfotuanaly the local labour party has really pushed the envelope on the theory and put up someone less articulate and more violent than a pig . According to those in the know half the local labour vote are claiming they will vote for my non labour brother in protest .He was hoping to avoid the embarrassment of losing his deposit now it looks like he could get elected.

Any news yet Rachel??

Any news yet Rachel??

Are you trying to get her arrested?

The web isn't everything.

runs a local business providing website development

originally from Yorkshire but moved to Kings Lynn

These points aside I have a lot of time for the Greens, so good luck!

Does anyone look at the websites of the any of the parties anyway? I've read a ton of stuff leading up to today but nothing from a party's website.

Good luck Rachel.

Bruceonabike- yeah, I ended up here by accident after an interesting night at a friend's birthday party. 😉

I just really like it, except it's not exactly the mountainous of places!

Oh - and being brutally honest with when a website is the right thing is completely compatible with being a developer. I want to make great products that deliver returns. If they won't do that, I'll say so.

Won't be any news till about 5pm tomorrow.

Rachel (tired but off to the overnight parliamentary count in a couple of hours...)

Good luck Rachael 😆
Nice eyes btw 😉

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Good luck. Let us know how you get on.

Hi Rachel, good on you for standing.

Out of interest, what does someone in your position do once the dust has settled on Monday morning?

bros - looking at the results of this election where for example the Greens have 3.7% of the vote giving 1 seat and the SNP have 4.8% of the vote and 55 seats, I think I'll be wanting to put some effort into voting reform!!

Oh - and we more than doubled our share of the parliamentary vote locally compared to last time 🙂

Rachel

I thought holiday would be top of the list 😉

Good luck in your endeavours into voting reform

Well done for standing Rachel.

looking at the results of this election where for example the Greens have 3.7% of the vote giving 1 seat and the SNP have 4.8% of the vote and 55 seats

Spread out over how many seats contested? What % of the vote did they win the seats they contested by? Easy to make figures work you way, more detail needed. The Greens don't have a very good track record with figures recently!

I'm all for voting reform, but as the FT pointed out, be careful what you wish for:

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So how did you do, Rachel? Deposit saved at least I hope!

If you'd been local, I'd have voted for you Rachel - you always come across as a genuinely decent person.

Just don't ask for PR elections when the Kippers are about. And note that the SNP proportion is an anomaly. They got half the vote in the seats they stood in - we will never know how many votes they'd have got if they'd stood in seats in EW&NI (maybe no more but I suspect you'd be surprised in some seats)

I'm all for voting reform, but as the FT pointed out, be careful what you wish for:

Yep, slow hand clap up UK. More worried with self interest & blaming failings on others than the planet you'll be leaving for future generation. 😥

Deleted as someone else just said exactly the same thing!

(SNP = 50% of popular vote across all seats where they stood, not 4.5%).

But by the same token UKIP didn't have candidates standing in a lot of constituencies either, so their support may actually be higher too! 😯

I certainly personally know several who have stood. Some have been successful, others less so.

Funniest was a Tory guy I know whose missus was Libdem. They stood in different wards so didn't compete against each other, but must be strange not having your own partner as support.

Neither of them won that time. But full credit to anyone who stands (unless they're BNP/EDL/...). Loads of councillors will just be walking in unopposed.

I'm all for voting reform, but as the FT pointed out, be careful what you wish for: