Green Party celebrate steady progress in local election polls

The Green Party of England and Wales are celebrating a night of steady progress after they added to their number of councillors and successfully defended seats in existing strongholds.

The Greens won 34 seats – a net increase of 11.

They succeeded in winning seats in target areas such as Reading and Dudley and defended all six seats in Norwich.

In London, mayor candidate Jenny Jones beat the Lib Dem candidate to come third.

And the party also came third in the list of “London-wide” assembly members – winning two of the seats allocated via a form of proportional representation.

Love some of the comments off the Salford star it’s a real shame the people making them did not get off their arse to vote.

So Salford has just become a one party state, Ian Stewart is the overall top boss, fantastic, labour in full control. so Mr Stewart, in 4 years time if it all go’s pear shaped who are we going to blame then Tories/LibDems ,sorry the blame will be right at your door Mr Stewart, chose your friends very carefully your future and your name depends on them, may be if you want to be a one term wonder you could pick no better man then Mr Merry he’ll show you how to be hated and despised. I hope you won’t follow in the foot steps of merry in sucking up to multimillionaires and property developers, I hope you will put the real people of Salford first which has not been the case for a long time now. I have to say labour played a blinder, the government has to cut back on the countries spending after 13 years of labour’s frivolous spending spree which left the country bankrupt, so Salford gets less money to work with like other cities, this is where the blinder comes in, doe’s Salford labour party rain in its non essential spending I.e Salford reds, BBC philharmonic orchestra,the lowry centre,peel holdings, evicting people from their homes and many other get rich schemes, no the people of Salford wont miss paying for the above, instead labour attacked the services the people of Salford would hate to lose, elderly care services, schools, police,hospitals. it was the Salford labour party who chose what was to go not the national government Salford people wouldn’t of cried if £22 million wasn’t spent on the reds stadium or £3 million a year on the orchestra, but they care for a care home or hospital and police and this is what labour relied on, the people of Salford were hood winked in voting for labour. now labour has complete control of Salford, dangerous for the citizens of Salford because we all know that councillors follow the party line in Salford and can pass any controversial development they now want, unopposed. but there is now another danger to Salford that is ,now that virtually all opposition has now been wiped out in Salford will the government tighten Salford purse strings even further, after all they have nothing to lose, it’s only a socialist council, the Tories are not the first party in history to do this. Salford has always voted labour in Salford, you ask any Salfordian why he/she votes labour the usual answer is I’ve always voted labour, or my father and mother and grandparents

Thought of the day

As every one forgot why you voted Labour out and replaced them with this shower in the first place?

Short memory syndrome strikes again in Salford and Manchester.

This comment off the MEN SERVES up the reality of voting in Salford

I always remember a Salford lady on TV saying that she didn’t like Gordon Brown, didn’t like Labour’s ruining of the economy etc. but was voting Labour because ‘if I didn’t my Dad would never forgive me’. She looked at the heavens as she said it. She was 73, her Dad was no longer with us but in effect he had just voted.

Well what do you make of it

Pongo the penguin comes

out trumps in the local election. 6 foot guy fights election dressed as penguin god give

us a break what next?to be honest made me smile.

Just for the confused and the lady who told me she is voting Labour because they will protect the NHS.

Central Government

At a national level, the country is divided into 659 Parliamentary Constituencies and voters in each area elect a Member of Parliament (MP) to sit in the House of Commons and represent them.

More information about Parliament responsibilities, including contact details for Members of Parliament are available from the Parliament website.
Central Government’s responsibilities include:

• setting and collecting all taxes, except council tax
• the National Health Service
• state benefits such as unemployment benefit, tax credits and state pensions
• making and reviewing UK law
• the Country’s security

Local Government

At local level, the country is divided into a series of local authorities or councils. Councils provide services in their local area. Voters in each area (electoral divisions) elect people to sit on the Council and represent them. .

Councils provide services in their local area.

           education

• social services
• roads and transport
• waste disposal
• economic development
• countywide planning and the environment
• protecting the public
• libraries

District and Borough Councils

District and Borough Councils provide many services, including:

• refuse collection and recycling
• environmental health
• tourism and regeneration
• leisure and amenities
• planning permission and building control
• housing needs services
• collection of Council Tax
• coastal protection
• off street car parking
• regeneration
• licensing

Perhaps people should take time out to understand what local councillors can and can’t do,then when they get a Labour leaflet through the door they will have a basic understanding of how labour have failed in Salford to even get the basics of local Government right.

Will Walkden South be labours next point of attack?

We wanted to test out the waters before we put any real work in and to be honest we where pleased with the response we got, once one seat falls the rest should follow it’s a bit like dominos . I hope to talk to our candidate this week to see if she wishes to build over the coming months of course Labour will feel confident but our lady lives in the area and is well known so with luck we could see some results. Labour are Lazy once they take the seat they forget it exist.

Thought of the day

I would like to say it was a a pleasure to meet the young Tory who stood in Swinton South this year at the count,and to wish Gina success. It was good to be going the right way coming in second i think it gives me a springboard to attack in 2014, lets hope we see the real labour come out over the next two years and every one in the City can see the reality of APATHY. Of course in answer to the emails i have received yes it disappointing to loose but that’s politics and i love the fight and with the friends i have met in the Green Party over the past couple of years i think we can become a third force in Salford. We  will be meeting next month and every month till 2014 if you wish to see what we are about you are welcome. I would like to say one thing to all those who have come out to gloat at the demise of Cllr Owen i worked with him for four years he had is faults like us all and we had personal differences but it saddened me personally to see him loose,to the people of Claremont you have turned on two of the Best Councillors  i had ever worked with in Cllr Owen and Mary Ferrer to elect what in reality  will turn out to be Labour sheep lets hope you don’t live to regret it. People in Salford have voted on National issues not local and that worries me because what we have today in Salford is a Labour dominated council lead by a union backed man who will do little to ease the suffering of many of the residents within this city.I hope you all keep a close eye on what these Labour Councillors take from this city in allowances because in all the cuts you will face over the coming years they wont face any.