Northampton Commentary
Friday 26th
April 2013
COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS
The Chronicle & Echo, the local
Northampton paper, conducted an on-line survey over lunch-time today,
asking people to vote for who they thought would win the County
Council Elections a week hence.
Leaders of UKIP, Tory, Labour, Lib-Dem,
Greens and “others” took part in an on-line Q & A.. With no
leader as such we were asked to nominate a spokesperson and we put
Margot Parker up for it. Views were expressed and points made over a
two hour debate and people could vote on line. Voting continued into
the late afternoon, and at 4.30 pm the figures were,-
Conservative 24% Labour 11% Lib-Dem
3%
Others 5% Green 16% UKIP 42%
WELL DONE MARGOT!!
The leaders of the other parties
included Brendan Glynane (Lib-Dem) and Tony Clarke (Green), both
well known in the town. Tony is an ex labour MP, holding the
Northampton South Seat for two successive elections, 1997 & 2001.
He fell out with the Labour party and held a Borough Council ward as
Independent Labour over two elections, now a Green. A pity in many
ways, I don’t like to see former students of mine being badly
treated.
As for the Tory leader today you may
recall my latest Strasbourg commentary in which I commented on the
odd statements he made as Tory leader of the Northants CC when I met
him at Geddington during Nigel’s whistle-stop tour. He claimed that
the expensive Brussels office the CC were to establish would generate
hundreds of thousands of pounds for businesses in the county, seconds
after saying that local elections were not UKIP business since there
was no connection between a County Council and the EU!
I said then that he was confused, but I
had not realised how much. One would think that, as local Party and
CC leader of some standing now, he should have been doing his stuff
in the on-line debate, but was conspicuous by his absence. He had a
dental appointment!! Now we all know how difficult making such
appointments can be but there are times, are there not?
It’s all to play for next week,
get those leaflets out, they’re no use next Friday.
Good luck to all of you
Derek Clark MEP Northampton 26th
April 2013
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