n0face wrote:

It's a bit late in the day surely. I'd of thought you'd be looking to get selected at least 6 months ago and after getting to know local party members and organisers.

The forms were only available a month ago. Everyone else, including the Chorley Parliamentary candidate only handed theirs in today.

No one at work lives in the area, and I don't either, it's the ward over from me. So I don't know anyone personally.

LarryDavid wrote:

What kind of con would involve standing for election as a green party candidate anyway? That would be a particularly lamebrained money-making scam.

She does sound like a daft bitch tbf.

I work in the ward.

Hah. I need to refresh more often.

Since you seem to know a bit about it, do the proposer/seconder names get published publicly, or is it only available for the returning officer to check? I wasn't sure about that. Nowhere seems to say.

Dante, what council area is it? I'm sure between us we would know a few people in that area who would propose/second you.

Stopharage wrote:

Dante, what council area is it? I'm sure between us we would know a few people in that area who would propose/second you.

It's the Town Centre ward of Preston Council.

It's the greens, surely hippy hair is mandatory.

Miliband's saying that if he gets into power he'll scrap non-dom status. Now there's a policy I can get behind.

No, he squirmed out of it, and stopped Clegg being in the next one.

equinox_code wrote:

Cameron's not in any more debates?! I thought he had another one. Fucking hell, what a slimy cunt. Would love to hear him pressed on why he's not interested in scapping non-dom status.

It will lose money. I think Labour concede this is a possibility as well, it's meant to be about values and fairness. Tory response to this would be the standard "job creation helping people out of the mire of poverty, healthy economy, black hole in Labour's finances blah blah blah" they respond to every issue with.

monkey wrote:

equinox_code wrote:

Cameron's not in any more debates?! I thought he had another one. Fucking hell, what a slimy cunt. Would love to hear him pressed on why he's not interested in scapping non-dom status.

It will lose money. I think Labour concede this is a possibility as well, it's meant to be about values and fairness. Tory response to this would be the standard "job creation helping people out of the mire of poverty, healthy economy, black hole in Labour's finances blah blah blah" they respond to every issue with.

A point peston pointed out was that non dom confers unfair business advantage which kind of interesting to hear.

monkey wrote:

It will lose money.

I'm interested to see if it does. There always seems to be a large number of very rich people willing to line up and say 'well, we can just leave' when faced with a policy that costs them money, but when it actually comes into effect, very few actually do. I think that the rich consider more than just tax rates when choosing which country to live in, and Britain has a hell of a lot to offer in comparison to most other countries in regards to political stability, personal safety, quality of education, cultural attractions, even the fact that English is the first language is attractive to many people.

I say do it and see what happens. I mean, even if they do all up sticks and leave and it does end up costing the government money, I won't be too sad to see the backs of the people who are pricing me out of my home.

It's easy to caricature these people but of course they're just doing perfectly legal stuff that many other people would probably do. I've got no probs with people that are actual non-doms as it stands. I'm not convinced of the benefit to our economy and, more broadly, our society of having a load of investment being generated by people who are only interested in the tax advantages of doing business here.

Well, just found out that UKIP came second in the vote in my ward.  LibDems came a close third.  Labour came up tops with a very comfortable majority.  

So my vote is entirely useless.