Great Britain Cooncil elections: who will you choose?

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There aren't any elections in my council area, so it doesn't apply to me.

Who will you vote for?

You forgetting that Liverpool has a mayoral election as well.

Am voting for the Greens in the council election and for Liam Fogarty in the mayoral!

I Fogarty's vision and passion for the city, so bring on Team Liverpool, the Great North Plan, the Liverpool Bay Area, and Liverpool Expo

So look out we will be back in business as a leading city in the world!

Why did you spell council like that?

Because it's the Scottish way of pronouncing it and I rather like it.

I thought it was about racism at first

I couldn't tell. I was thinking he was using the Scottish pronunciation because I know he's not that kind of bigot. (j/k about you being a bigot, Tequila)

Thought I'd query it, though.

I thought it was going to be a joker thread.

I was going to spell it another way originally but you'd discipline me for it.

I take great offence - to bigot levels, in fact - to you joking about me being bigoted!

(Most people are in one way or another, to a greater or lesser degree.)

It's a hard question. People were dismayed with the Gordon Brown government and now they are less than keen on the Conservatives. Are there any decent people in politics these days anyway. I think local elections are thought to give an indication of how things would go nationally.

If I was British I'd be voting Green. Unless I felt that I needed to vote strategically to defeat the Conservatives (not that I think Labour or the Lib-Dems are much better for the most part). If I was voting for the London mayor I'd vote Jenny Jones (Green) and put Ken Livingstone (Labour, but his ideals seem slightly more aligned with mine compared to the rest of the Labour party) as my second choice vote.

I can't vote as my council area isn't up for election (but the one next door, i.e. Preston, is). I'd vote UKIP if I could.

Forgive my question: I am just another uninformed Yank.

What does Council mean in this context?

ruveyn

Basically, it means that various tiers of elected representatives - councillors - of some local councils are up for election as well as a few mayoral seats as well. It basically means local elections.

I'm from Scotland and that's the way I pronounce it and the way I hear it in my head when I think of the word (if that makes any sense).

I voted SNP as my 1st preference, Labour as my 2nd and used my 3rd and 4th preferences for independent candidates. I think the ballot is different in England and you just get one vote? I'm not particularly enthusiastic about any of the people I voted for - I just tried to pick the best of a bad bunch as I felt it was important to vote.

In my area, we had a choice of 1 Tory, 1 LibDem, 2 Labour and 2 SNP candidates. My first choice was one of the current councillors, who happens to be Labour. I know him, as he always attends our parent council meetings and cares about the local community. My 2nd and 3rd choices were SNP, as they're as close to old Labour as you can get these days and there was no Green candidate. I was a LibDem voter, but no more.

BTW I say 'council'. I grew up in a cooncil scheme, but my first school was a private one, so I was 'polished' to speak like this. When I changed schools, there was no end to the jibes and being called a snob.

I've had the snob comments too, because although I speak with an accent I speak correctly and 'use posh words', and also I've had the 'common' comments as well because I have an accent - you just can't win! I find that I pick up accents really easily without meaning to, so I get very broad when I am with people from the same area as me, and my accent fades when I am with people from elsewhere. I lived in England for a year (I am going back soon) and I've had to work quite hard not to pick up the local accent. There is nothing wrong with it of course, but I am not from there so it would be odd to speak that way.

I agree with you about Old Labour - I've always been a Labour voter, but I am quite disappointed in them now. I would vote Labour if the candidate was good but they didn't even bother to leaflet here.