I know the established and more experienced politicians will laugh, but when tackling this process for the first time it is not as easy as you think. Perhaps that's why we are struggling to find local Councillors and some local elections are going uncontested...?
You see it is not what I do really. I'm not a career politician. I'm a blogger, a writer, an ex-Civil Servant, a semi-retired former IT specialist, now a van driver for God's sake...!
I'm only doing this because I'm thoroughly dissatisfied with the way things are at the moment and I want things to be better. I'd much rather that I could entrust it all to the career politicians, but experience has shown that career politicians from the main political parties are probably the last people we should allow to run local Councils. Certainly the last people we should allow to run Westminster and Europe and parties in breweries...
So I think that we need a little revolution locally. We need more ordinary local people to ditch their TV's as I have done, and become more actively involved with their Town/Parish Councils.
This evenings small step for career-politicians kind, but a giant leap for TGR Worzel, was working on an election leaflet. I've never done anything like that before. It was a completely alien experience. I'm satisfied with it this evening, it says what I want it to say, but we'll have to wait and see how well received it is.
The next big step is to find a couple of people to nominate me, once the formal announcement of the by-election has been made. Later this week I think...
Any volunteers...?
So long as you live in the Shamblehurst ward of Hedge End and are on the electoral roll, you are eligible to do so. It would be great to hear from you. Thanks in anticipation.
Not least because it'll postpone the next giant leap, of knocking on doors, canvassing.
I'm really not looking forward to doing that.
If I'd wanted to spend my time knocking on doors I'd have become a Double Glazing Salesman.
It has got to be done though, if I want to help change things for the better in Hedge End.
The alternative is to let things carry on as they are, and that's an even less attractive thought...!
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I'm not laughing Ray. It must be daunting to stand for the first time as an independent in Hedge End which is dominated politically by two parties with their armies of leaflet deliverers and their millionaire backers to underwrite their election costs.
I wish you well and hope that the voters of Shamblehurst give a chance to the "ordinary man"
Thanks Keith. I'm quite sure that a lot of local people are discouraged from standing as an independent because they think they have got no chance against the big two.
Perhaps, if I'm successful in Shamblehurst, more candidates will come forward, as we'll have shown that it can be done.
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