Labour candidate in leicester

Sarahsaver

I am feeling sad this morning:(
Peter Soulsby got in in the constituency I live in:(
when he was leader of the council he closed 5 schools, and now there is a shortage of school places, so they are planning to make new ones!!! Myself and many other colleagues had to apply for our own jobs, and many staff and children reacted really badly - depression, breakdowns. For many kids in deprived areas the school was the one and only consistent thing in their lives. Clearly he doesn't mind having taken such a path to government.

surfcat

I'm feeling sad this morning - I still live in an area surrounded by Tories! (Reading)

shrek101

Me 2 surfcat, I hate Tories. They are ruining my home town They only just go in

Murtle

surfcat wrote:

I'm feeling sad this morning - I still live in an area surrounded by Tories! (Reading)

oops hit the thanks button not the quote button....Reading where....??!

Reading is split - half the town is Labour - the other half is Conservative....

Looks like I need to move.....

Murtle

Sarahsaver wrote:

I am feeling sad this morning:(
Peter Soulsby got in in the constituency I live in:(
when he was leader of the council he closed 5 schools, and now there is a shortage of school places, so they are planning to make new ones!!! Myself and many other colleagues had to apply for our own jobs, and many staff and children reacted really badly - depression, breakdowns. For many kids in deprived areas the school was the one and only consistent thing in their lives. Clearly he doesn't mind having taken such a path to government.

Am really sorry to hear that! It's a horrible feeling when someone gets in that just spells trouble! I hope he doesn't ruin things like he did last time.

Wishing you all the best

x x x x

raeble

Sarahsaver wrote:

I am feeling sad this morning:(
Peter Soulsby got in in the constituency I live in:(
when he was leader of the council he closed 5 schools, and now there is a shortage of school places, so they are planning to make new ones!!! Myself and many other colleagues had to apply for our own jobs, and many staff and children reacted really badly - depression, breakdowns. For many kids in deprived areas the school was the one and only consistent thing in their lives. Clearly he doesn't mind having taken such a path to government.

Hello! I live in Leicester South too. I agree with you about Peter Soulsby - I remember him and his BMW dropping his spawn off at school when I was little. Never liked him. Didn't like the fact that he gave himself 27k for being head of the council back in the nineties for a part-time job. Was earning more than MPs at the time. I did vote for him though. Out of him and that useless waste of space Lib Dem idiot - who also didn't hold surgeries, hasn't given up his job as a city councillor and is being investigated for threatening female government inspectors I thought I'd go with Soulsby. I voted tactically I have no love for Labour at all. I was going to vote green but then no one bothered to vote in the by-election and I was forced to vote Labour. Only about 10% more bothered to vote in the election proper. I really don't know what is wrong with people these days.

surfcat

I live in Reading but in the Wokingham constituency, with that Vulcan in charge. I know R west is still Labour but the picture of Berkshire as a whole is blue-rinse hunting gas-guzzlingly Tory.

pennym_3

I know R west is still Labour but the picture of Berkshire as a whole is blue-rinse hunting gas-guzzlingly Tory.

I am a Tory but I do not hunt, I do not have a blue rinse and nor is my car a gas guzzler.


Maybe you ought to know that your stereotype is about as typical as the Cloth cap, council estate dwelling, fag in mouth Labour voter.

You may find, that in about a year, Labour will be forced to raise tax, increase interest rates and this time Gordon will not be able to blame the lagacy he inherited rom the Tories.

Do enjoy your Labour govt. Many of us..the 63% of the nation who did not vote for Blair, that is.

mr_accountant

pennym wrote:

Do enjoy your Labour govt. Many of us..the 63% of the nation who did not vote for Blair, that is.

i think a more accurate figure is around 80% did not vote for labour if you account for those that did not bother to vote. i.e. 1/5 vote labour and still labour win by a thumping majority, thats whats called democracy?

Sofa_Sogood

pennym wrote:

I know R west is still Labour but the picture of Berkshire as a whole is blue-rinse hunting gas-guzzlingly Tory.

I am a Tory but I do not hunt, I do not have a blue rinse and nor is my car a gas guzzler.


Maybe you ought to know that your stereotype is about as typical as the Cloth cap, council estate dwelling, fag in mouth Labour voter.

sorry pennym, but you've just stereotyped voters of different parties yourself.

You think all Tory voters hunt? All have blue rinses? And drive?

And your stereotypical Labour voter is a cloth cap, sink estate smoker, that presumably keeps pigeons as a hobby?

Sorry. But that's not quite right is it? Look at the swings and where, like Leeds and LibDems won a seat for instance? That was unexpected. ( I can't remember the constituency - sorry), but unexpected all the same?

It's all about local issues in my honest opinion. Like law and order.

surfcat

Was it not Tory policy to repeal the ban on hunting?
Does the Tory party in general prefer the individual to run cars whilst neglecting public transport and climate change?
Isn't the Tory party membership rather skewed by people well into retirement?

I'm quite happy for taxes to rise to pay for public services, in the first instance they need to be risen to pay for the 17 years of underfunding they received under the witch and her follower.

...and interest rates are controlled by the Bank of England, not the government. Hopefully they will rise to !!!!!! the ridiculous house price bubble we have at the moment, an obsession much aided by the aforementionned broomstick-rider.