I have asked for an appointment with the Candidate Liaison Officer for Bristol City Council, having successfully obtained the ten signatures of registered voters in Eastville Ward necessary to get my name on the ballot. Many thanks to the friends and neighbours who signed my nomination papers. Members of the major parties can just get ten members of the local party to sign, but that is not an option for small-party or independent candidates like myself. We have to ask the people who know us, or who live next door to us, which is what community politics is all about.
One signatory, who I won't embarrass by naming in public, asked me what the Wessex Regionalists were all about. I explained that we wanted a regional parliament for Wessex, to stop the vast majority of the nation's resources going...at that point, she finished my sentence for me; "...to London. Say no more". She added that she used to live in the Wen, and knew what a den of iniquity it was. It seems I struck a nerve!
One signatory, who I won't embarrass by naming in public, asked me what the Wessex Regionalists were all about. I explained that we wanted a regional parliament for Wessex, to stop the vast majority of the nation's resources going...at that point, she finished my sentence for me; "...to London. Say no more". She added that she used to live in the Wen, and knew what a den of iniquity it was. It seems I struck a nerve!