LDV is hoping to bring a series of podcasts from the campaign trail this April in the run up to a big set of local elections across the country. (If you don’t know who’s having elections, Keith Edkins has a handy trailer. “Cheshire West and Chester” sounds like a clumsy name for a local authority!)
You can use this to promote your local campaign, appeal for help, and tell us what’s happening in your neck of the woods.
There are two ways to take part: volunteer to take part in a telephone interview or just get on the blower to the Podcast Hotline on 020 7617 7221.
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Topics you might like to cover if you’re going it alone on the Podcast Hotline: how’s your campaign going? How many hundreds of thousands of leaflets are you putting out? What are the themes of your campaign and your key messages? Are you hoping to hold, increase, fight fire or wipe-out a third party? Do you need outside help? What are the other parties? Any fringe candidates putting their heads over the parapet?
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Ugh, “Cheshire West and Chester UA” is surely the worst local authority name in British history. Who comes up with this rubbish?
Cheshire West and Chester? Ouch! Any administrative authority that needs a conjunction in its name is by definition not a natural entity and therefore socially unsatisfactory. But what does that matter to penpushers in London? I’m reminded of Reginald Hill’s description of “Cumbria” as “… the powsody the politicians made thirty years ago of the grand old counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, with segments of Lancashire and Yorkshire stapled on to straighten the boundaries and make it fit more easily into a filing cabinet.” (The Stranger House, 2005, Author’s Note).
Speaking of which, I’m trying to get a movement together to Put Furness Back In Lancashire. Where it belongs – you should see some of the idiocies the clowns in Carlisle try to impose on us, and guess what – the quickest way to get from Barrow to Carlisle involves going to Lancaster first!
How does one get to blog here? I want to do a piece about the Academy that is being foisted on us by the clowns in Carlisle, against the wishes of just about everybody in town.
Yes, the 1973 reforms served up some bizarre authorities and names.
How about “Basingstoke and Deane” or “Shrewsbury and Atcham”? Or “Babergh” or “Forest Heath”?
Just what did Atcham ever do to be placed alongside Shrewsbury?
And the “Forest” is a hideous conifer plantation that has ruined the ancient “Heath”.
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