So glad...

[muninnhuginn]

...  I read the local news before I went to vote.

I was planning to vote Green. I shan't vote Green locally again.

When the sitting (so there's no way of dislodging him until he comes up for re-election) Green councillor swaps sides on polling day (to Labour, but it would be just as bad wherever he went) because he "wanted to be part of a bigger party that has real power to make a difference for people" to further his political career, I'm not voting for the Green candidate who's another young white man very likely on the political make.

Oops, that rules out all the candidates in my ward.

Oh well, back to  the blank protest vote.

(I'm really going to miss Margaret Wright.)

(I wonder how many folk will react similarly and switch from Green.)

Comments

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I actually quite wanted to support one candidate (I can only vote in a borough election this time) and this person seemed to me to be genuinely able - albeit in a quite non-political way (i.e. spotting that there is a logistics problem, and shouting at the people responsible until they agree they will Do Better Next Time - but they haven't been shouting for long enough to show whether they can effect change, or only a promise to change).

I have never not voted (apart from illness and finding myself absent*), and always voted for a candidate. But 'none of the above' has almost always been my first preference. Maybe I should start blanking.



* hence the joy of postal voting

Blanking

[muninnhuginn]

"Blanking": I like that--as a term.

I have to confess that I've always loyally turned out to vote, but almost certainly (once I stopped doing the Copeland supports Brother Jack thing) I have voted with a blank ballot paper more than anything else. I'd rather have someone to vote for.

I felt quite genuinely betrayed by the ex-Green today. To the point of being near to tears.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

I haven't often had anyone to vote for, but generally have found someone to vote against.

That last-minute change of party sounds very odd, at best.

[muninnhuginn]

M and I decided he'd assumed that Labour would end up with a majority, so he'd get to be part of the ruling group. The result is no overall control, so he's not got what he expected, and no Greens.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

People can be such idiots.

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

It really is a very sad time for the Greens. Without Margaret (for all the worst reasons) and with Adam acting true to form (I've heard obnoxious things about him before this), they seem to have fallen apart.

[muninnhuginn]

"Obnoxious things", eh? Wouldn't know. Never met him. Unlike MW whom I used to speak to regularly.