Jenny Jones – green mayoral candidate replies

So far Jenny Jones’ team are the only Mayoral candidate to reply to me, obviously they’ve all been terribly busy with the campaign but you’d have hoped the larger parties could have found some intern to send a bland response, but then they didn’t make it easy to contact them in the first place. Not as robust a reply as I received from UKIP but not bad and at least as a Moyral candidate they did at least reply which is better than any of the others. “Hi A Voter, Thanks for this. We discussed at our team meeting. While … Continue reading

Local Tory’s speak about silencing the electorate

Sorry for the delay in updating this, but have been away from the computer but some replies have rolled in. From my two local Conservative representatives for one. Before I post those let me remind you of the letter I sent, particularly these two phrases from it: “Obviously I don’t expect you to be able to comment on individual cases.” and “So I was wondering if you think it is ever appropriate that a local Council seek to prevent one of their constituents from writing about them in any form?” I’m afraid I shall be writing back to the individuals … Continue reading

Gerard Batten MEP speaks

Another reply to my letter this time from UKIP MEP Gerard Batten, who it seems doesn’t consider this to be a non-European matter and so did reply and gives every sign of having read the Mail article I linked to. Sadly as far as I’m concerned they’ve ducked the question of if council should ever seek to prevent the electorate from writing about them and have got hung up on the language thing – I’ve followed up, here’s their reply: “Dear A Voter, I was not aware of this case in particular, but it is interesting and thank you for … Continue reading