50s pensioners: Time for you to put the boot into your local councillor at May’s elections | David Hencke
Excellent advice from Mr Hencke. Visit his story for more.
The 3.9 million 50s pensioners have a great opportunity to get their views across at the local elections to be held on Thursday May 3. Elections will be held in all 32 London boroughs, 34 metropolitan boroughs, 68 district/borough councils and 17 unitary authorities. There are also elections for mayors in the London boroughs of Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets and just outside London in Watford.
Local elections are of course about local matters. However the performance of political parties at local elections is always judged by the media as a snapshot of national voting intentions. Also the attitude of local councillors towards the plight of women denied their pensions for up to six years could well be symptomatic of their attitude towards other injustice issues.
You can do this by first getting on top the House of Commons library constituency estimates of the 3.9 million people affected here.
Go to the end of the summary and download the constituency estimates ( You will need Excel on your computer).Then look up your constituency and the total number of people affected. You will find it is thousands in your constituency.
Next go onto the Wikipedia link at the end of the report and see if your council has elections. Then go on to the council’s site and chase up your ward councillors.
Challenge them to put pressure on their MP to get government policy changed so you will get your money. If they refuse vote for the nearest challenger who will.
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I would like to put the boot in
Unfortunately, our sitting too secure Labour councillor is not due for retirement tes. Although some of his colleagues are. Some good stable traditional Labour councillors are going. God knows what we will get offered next. But he is not going and looks acts and talks like something which crawled out of a dumpster in the morning.
Never follows up on anything, Eh, Yer Wot? and even forgets and does not recognise you one day after having a special meeting with you and colleague for over 2 hours with his young Labour councillor who is supposed to be learning from him.
unfortunately, Labour strong secure seat due to demographics.
I am not surprised the area remains a poor area with highest in negative demographics and no hope of rising.
Just because Tories are bad does not mean Labour is GOOD. Many still wont vote for crap.
KICK UP ARSE IS SURELY NEEDED.