I just feel it's nicer to have a candidate who is a local so will be able to connect with the voters a lot easier and quicker than somebody "parachuted" in. If folks know of, or even know, their candidate long before they become it, it means they can become more receptable. Plus, the candidates being able to speak "Swad Proper" is a good idea.

 It's a funny place after all.

Folks that are born there, tend to stay there.

Folks that come here, tend to stay here longer than they thought they would. 

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Still can't find much about him locally, managed to nail down a bit more of his past though.

"In 2004/5 Oliver Kempton was elected as Campaigns & Membership Office" - Oxford Uni Labour Party.

From there, there's basically nothing at all. No party record, no local experience, no information on the candidate only that he came forth in said council elections [After the Lib Dems, Greens and Cons]

Not sure if he's local or what, but I cannot find owt about him. 

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I assume you mean stuff like the "The Highways Agency has just discovered South Derbyshire Exists" comment?

I do agree with the gaff with the tax increase "Gaff" though, took her a fair bit oh digging out of that one. 

Though I do disagree with the leader of the opposition apparently leaking it, what was he doing browsing the council leaders email? Or any other Tory member for that matter? 

I actually grabbed some random people in the shops when that one about the highways came out. 

 "She's right, but perhaps she shouldn't have been so severe."

 "Too bloody right, roads here are terrible."

etc etc etc.

I actually agree with her, the roads here are sodding terrible and they only replace little chunks of it when they apparently can be bothered. Otherwise it's patch patch patch.

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The problem with Swad is it's a blunt and to the point place. She's been here for over a decade, and hasn't been into the Westminster Bubble to get "soft" so she can be blunt about such comments and still be able to find herself in decent running order.

Labour found itself far too complacent within the local elections after all, and it may be doing so again. It's never ever lost the council to the Tories. So didn't really make an effort with the council elections.

Then the Tories won the council in the majority for the first time and Labour went beserk. It's dropped quite a few false leaks too since the Tories took over, claiming wild things like the Tories would sell off all the council houses because they were Tories.

Instead said Tories are now asking for people to rent them properties because it turns out they need more council homes that Labour refused to build over time, and are now trying to rent back around 800 "empty" homes. 

I mean, Mark Todd's hardly any better these days.

He was on the local Radio today saying "Well, you'll just have to get used to higher petrol prices, so there!"

Of course he can say that, can't he?

What with claiming £4,105 on car related expenses.

I'd love to be able to do that. Really I would. 

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