[Blanche]

Or mine !! Hope a few come to my door my eldest starts school this year I have lots of questions !! Postal vote for me this time !!

[flower]

I also do a postal vote as does my hubby save us going to the polling station

[LocalMummy]

As we have "real live" candidates on board - I am going to be cheeky and bump this


LM



ps - although I am SPP North - I'm interested in ALL candidates views

[Jeremy]

I'm interested in what we're (the island) are going to be lied to over and over again for the next 4 years.

[Spirit]

Will any of the candidates have the coujons to take on the C of E over the way that they rip us off by getting free churches, free maintenance, free accommodation for the staff, etc. We even pay someone to do the cleaning.

[5cats35]

If you want my vote in St Sampson then I expect the candidate to have tried to visit me in person. I don't apprepciate haveing 2 manifestos in one enevelope posted to me. The candidtaes couldn't even be bothered to address it to Mr & Mrs 5cats. All they had was my address on.

If they can't be bothered to do the leg work now it doesn't fill me with any confidence that they would do so if elected.

[bigbro]

Aren't the address labels done by the States? I believe the candidates can purchase a set of printed address labels for all households with registered voters in their district.

Therefore if it doesn't have names, it's probably not the fault of the candidates. Do they even get a list of names or is it just addresses in any case?

[Gorilla]

I doubt they are given names for Data Protection reasons. Its none of their business who lives there.

[JonLeTocq]

You can get labels with names, but it is 1) a waste of print, as they are all separate labels (as each elector is a separate entity) and so many voters live at the same address you would end up sticking several labels on one envelope, 2) a waste of time: it's only a label for goodness sake and wasting time, trees and tenners on extra paper, extra envelopes (if you were going to post them and address them all individually) is frankly inefficient and irresponsible.

Similarly saving time and resources by posting together in one large envelope seems common sense to me, they are delivered by the same postman! It would indicate to me that a prospective politician has thought carefully about where unnecessary costs can be saved; maybe s/he will think that way corporately too! We'd all be the first to complain if we saw the States wasting our tax pounds sending out stuff in this way (in fact they could minimise more by billing water/electricity together perhaps!) Reduce, re-use, recycle!

The content is what matters and I would hope that most thoughtful voters will concentrate on studying that whether in printed form or on-line which is an even more accessible and efficient way of getting the message through.

[JonLeTocq]

All prospective candidates by the way should be registered with Data Protection if they store electronic electoral roll information.

Also properties whose inhabitants are not on the roll will not receive mailed manifestos, and anyone hand-delivering manifestos would normally have a 'walk-route' version of the electoral roll, and bearing in mind that he or she wants to reach voters, it would be foolish and wasteful to deliver one to every home.

I am posting mine by the way along with a few other candidates in the Castel. You can also access mine along with other info, and pose questions, etc. on-line - here - and via this Facebook campaign page. But I also intend to walk the district over the next few weeks (in fact already begun) in order to visit electors, check they have read or had access to my manifesto and drop a note in if there's no one at home.

The difficulty I've found in the past is that during the day increasingly there are fewer and fewer people at home, but if you try and visit later in the evening when folk have returned from work etc. many people do not like to be disturbed. So you can't really win!

Back to plodding the lanes now...!

[poolepirate]

I would like each and every one to define what they consider to be 'living in poverty'

I believe that peoples' expectations of life style to be excessive and unrealistic.

I object to contributing to someone's smoking, drinking or Sky TV habit.

[Stroppy]

Should the 'poor' be allowed no fun at all then? Where do you draw the line? Wooden bench instead of a settee? Is soup too frivolous when bread and water would be adequate?

[JonLeTocq]

Spirit, on 19 March 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:

Will any of the candidates have the coujons to take on the C of E over the way that they rip us off by getting free churches, free maintenance, free accommodation for the staff, etc. We even pay someone to do the cleaning.

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[LocalMummy]

Oi you lot - stop getting off topic

[Spirit]

is it?

[bigbro]

[Spirit]

He has my vote

[queenie]

He called on me and does have some good ideas. I never thought I'd hear myself saying this but I had to agree with a lot of his points of view.