This is unbelievable. The Green candidate for Mayor of Salford isn’t even in the booklet being forced out by Salford Council! The problem is that the Council wanted to charge each candidate £500 for the privilege, and some people – like Green people – haven’t got it. Call this democracy? Democracy, as a concept, has failed in Salford, and we will have to live with the consequences for many years to come.
Green candidate left out of Mayor booklet
According to The Gaurdian, recent research in February shows that in Salford there are ten job-seekers for every employment vacancy. Coincidentally, there are now ten candidates running for the post of elected Mayor for Salford.
Now it really is getting confusing! There’s LOADS of people want to be Mayor of Salford. (Blimey, they must think there’s money in it! They couldn’t be more wrong.) So, you – yes, you, with the haircut – want the job? Just join the list!
It’s not what you do, it’s – oh, wait a minute – No, it IS what you do. Sorry, nearly forgot.
Mike Scantlebury is the man on the left. The man on the right is Jesse James, the well-known bandit and bank robber. (He is wanted in seven counties.)
Just in case you weren’t sure – and who can be really sure of anything, in Salford, certainly – this is an article that explains where the idea of electing Mayors in Britain came from, and how the first ten years of it went. (It went.) Meanwhile, Salford is still on track to have the Mayoral election on Thursday, 3rd May, and my book about it happening is still here.
What electing a Mayor really means
Just when you thought it was safe to go out the front door again, panic! Yeah, someone is watching you and, well, it doesn’t matter if you DIDN’T vote to have a damn Mayor in Salford, the rest of the country is watching now. So there.
“Council Watch” – watching Salford!
It’s no good me being all forthright and telling Salfordians they need to vote for a Mayor on 3rd May if they haven’t actually registered! That’s right, you need to get your name down on the list. Bouncers says, ‘If you’re not on The List, you’re not coming in’, and that applies to Polling Stations too. When you turn up on Thursday, 3rd May, you’ll need to be a name they recognise, or – well, we’ll be sorting out this Mayor business without you!
It’s a fancy claim to say you ARE the ‘new Charles Dickens’, but luckily the newspapers just announced he’s been dead for a hundred years – and can’t protest.
Meanwhile, it’s not really possible to produce anything, let alone a book, for nothing. But hey, if you sponsor this project – even just a little bit – you get a free something or other. Prizes for all, and you know prize means –
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