Trying to predict which way the parliamentary election will
go here in Thanet South seems to have fallen apart with various opinion polls
disagreeing I think there is still a fair chance of winding up with either a
UKIP, Conservative or Labour MP.
National government wise it is still looking like a no
overall majority result with the SNP factor suggesting that the next parliament
will lean a bit more to the left.
As there is very little I can do about any of this I am still
thinking in terms of who will make a reasonable constituency MP and first up is
writing to your MP if your benefits stop or you get some huge tax bill.
Of course your family income may be over £73,100 which takes
you out of the benefit system and you may pay no taxes… but even then you may
have occasion to write to your MP.
So after the election if you write to your MP… Will they reply to you? Will one of their office staff reply to you? Will they have a
reasonable understanding of what goes on here in Thanet? Will they get Thanet
much in the of government grant funding?
Predicting how the Thanet District Council councillors
election will go seems to be the same only different, I am making the
assumption most people will put their crosses against the same parties in this
one as they did on the general election. So we will probably wind up with about
a third UKIP, about a third Conservative and about a third Labour councillors
at TDC.
As a bit of a TDC watcher over the past few years I am a bit
uncertain if this makes much difference, however I would say you are doing
pretty well if you can even find candidates you have heard of on your TDC
ballot paper.
Over the last few weeks I have asked UKIP, The Conservatives
and Labour for a TDC manifesto, nothing was delivered and as it's getting a bit
late I am coming to the conclusion that most of the prospective TDC councillors
have absolutely no idea what they aim to do.
Will Scoble not only wrote he telephoned me. But then so did Roger Gale.
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