There has certainly been no shortage of political scandal here in the UK over the last week or so, but how much of a difference will it make in the local elections in just a few days time? Whilst John Prescott's affair is embarrassing and the Home Office's (Charles Clarke) hash up with releasing foreign prisoners without considering them for deportation is appalling, will it, or should it, affect the local elections?
My personal opinion is that in local elections, you should vote for local issues and leave the national issues for the general election. I don't know, maybe I'm over simplifying things. Maybe you should treat Labour as Labour and Conservative as Conservative, whether local or national - after all, they should still be pursuing the same goals and have the same attitudes.
What does anyone else think? What is the arrangement in other countries with local/national government and how do issues affecting one affect elections in the other?
My personal opinion is that in local elections, you should vote for local issues and leave the national issues for the general election. I don't know, maybe I'm over simplifying things. Maybe you should treat Labour as Labour and Conservative as Conservative, whether local or national - after all, they should still be pursuing the same goals and have the same attitudes.
What does anyone else think? What is the arrangement in other countries with local/national government and how do issues affecting one affect elections in the other?
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I can vote differently at local and national levels and have done previously and would have done this time until the Lib Dems annoyed me with their leaflet which had a factual inaccuracy. I think although some policies are interlinked, many aren't and local elections are a different kettle of fish.
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