County Council elections are on Thursday May 4th. They could be the last before Oxfordshire County Council becomes a Unitary Council.
A month later is the general election. Normally such elections would be planned in advance and happen on the same day. Having two elections will presumably double the expense for the district council.
We got our polling cards a couple of weeks ago, but I have not noticed any literature from any of the parties until this morning when our first County Council candidate, Alison Rooke, came knocking the doors of West St Helen Street.
It was amusing to see in the Abingdon Herald this week that instead of Mike Badcock, one party’s candidate for Abingdon South, the paper has mistakenly shown Neil Fawcett, another party’s candidate for Abingdon South.
We had a labour flyer put through our door which spelled the candidate’s name wrongly!
Is that ‘the’ Jim Broadbent? Will he be bringing his new found experience from Game of Thrones to the council? Could be interesting if not a traditional Green Party approach. I’d vote for that
Jim Broadbent was also in teletubbies. Maybe that will be his approach?
Annabel: that flyer was from me.
The final proof of the leaflet I saw had no mistake on it. It appeared by the time I collected them from our local organiser. I then made the decision that it would be wasteful to scrap the leaflets for an error that didn’t affect the meaning. Given the reaction I have had since, this may have been a mistake. There’s been some discussion about this on the Abingdon Facebook group today as well.
This may have been a mistake???