Shane Croucher

When will Southend wake up and realise that, though we can blame Labour for many things, Southend is run by Tories?

Conservatives have held the parliamentary seats since time-immemorial. We’ve had a Tory controlled council since 2000. If you have grievences with how Southend is run, don’t make the same mistake again!

You don’t even have to vote for the main three. Vote fringe or independent. In the General Election, vote for someone who is Southend born-and-bred, not some half-wit who, having lost elections fighting other seats, gets shuffled into Southend by the Conservatives. You could put a monkey in a blue rosette and it could win Southend’s seats.

The same goes for the council seats. If you don’t like Southend’s current governance, change it! We’ve got a General Election and local council elections this year. Get out, vote, and use it wisely.

p.s. if you haven’t registered to vote then click here.

Brown has finally agreed to parade himself in front of a camera in a series of American-esque TV debates. Is this good?

Well, it certainly brings another level to the pre-election PR campaigns. It’s a big chance for the main three parties to compete for the best headline-grabbing soundbite they can. If Brown performs well, there could be a chance of a reasonable Labour recovery. If he doesn’t, it’ll spell the end of his career as his leadership will be overturned – if this hasn’t happened before the debates anyway. We’ll hear endless drones about Tory cuts, countless snorts of Labour spending, and some general Lib Dem white-noise in between. There’s everything to play for if you’re LibLabCon.

The debates will not provide anything conclusive on policy. They will be generic slogans and drivel, which we’ve all heard before, except it will be three for the price of one. Ultimately, once again, PR will define political success. All the TV debates will do is offer yet another platform for meaningless, vote-winning (or losing) bullshit.

I’d rather just see a fight to the death, like the good old days.

Take a look at each link as a bit of background research on the parties putting forward candidates for election as an MEP in the East Midlands.

Labour’s East Midlands campaign website.

Tory’s East Midlands campaign website.

Lib Dem East Midlands campaign website.

Green Party East Midlands campaign website.

NO2EU (Socialist Party) campaign website.

Socialist Labour Party campaign website.

Libertas East Midlands campaign website.

English Democrats campaign website.

Jury Team campaign website.

United Kingdom First campaign website.

Christian Party Christian Peoples Alliance campaign website.

UKIP East Midlands campaign website.

BNP campaign website.

Enjoy! I hope this is useful.