One interesting this about the #Rochdale by-election is that David Anthony Tully came second (with double the vote of any of the mainstream parties)... running as an independent, Tully's (4 week) campaign seems to have been about asserting a locally-defined #politics.
The Q. is how big an element in the next election will be these sort(s) of independents - if Rochdale is anything to go by, non-mainstream/ non-party locals may have an unusually good chance of gaining significant votes?
If they put them on the ballot paper as 'none of the above' they will get my vote. I would rater not have another 4 years of the sort of nonsense we are getting.
Behaviour in schools is getting worse, behaviour in society is getting worse, Someone needs to get a grip and take tough action Parents don't want to be bothered with anything regarding actually raising their kids.
@zleap @ChrisMayLA6
Huh?
I believe parents are just as interested in raising their kids as they ever were. But decades of chipping away at services (and very predatory online services) make the job a lot more difficult.
@zleap
Yes, the local candidate was definitely plugging into that disconnect