One notes that the Our Prime Minister has opened his Party's Campaign for the Local Government Elections to be held on May 2.nd next. Some might wonder why it hadn't been opened before now.Possibly any delay was to try and dissociate these elections from the controversial funerary arrangements of Baroness Thatcher. May she rest in Peace.
Usually too few bother to vote in Local Elections, here we are to have our first Parish Council Elections for over two decades, that because before , too few bothered to stand for Election, though there was never a shortage of Councillors willing enough to be co-opted onto most Parish Councils. Our Area used to have a District Council as the one above Parish Level. However our District Council was abolished at the behest of the Wiltshire County Council which decided that in future the County would be Governed by a single Unitary Authority, namely themselves. As County Level Governance is highly Party Political does the Electorate feel that its collective majority has been disenfranchised by the ruling Minority ?
Then of course last year a minority of the Electorate voted -in Crime and Police Commissioners. There was no call for any such appointments, and there was certainly no wish to see candidates standing for office on a Party Political basis. One sees that one Commissioner is getting stick up in Cumbria because of the cost of hiring a car to take him to official functions, and that down in Kent there was a problem concerning the appointment of some sort of a youth Commissioner to represent local young people at a cost of £17,000 a year. Clearly this scheme of Commissioners is a nonsense.
It is exceedingly important that we all cast our votes on May 2nd., and do so whether one knows that the result of the Election will be a foregone conclusion or not. For these Elections are an opportunity to express ones personal opinion of our National Coalition Government.
