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Post by sanders on Aug 4, 2024 20:06:32 GMT
We are now at 2,500 leaflets delivered. The emphasis is on improving community assets, like the Archway Road Steps, turning the Archway Methodist Hall into a community asset or housing, turn the closed pub on St John's Way into something useful for the community.
As for my tutoring work, I believe we should tax those Ultra High Net Worth (not all of them are that and it's crackers to think so) families to help restore parity between state and independent spending per pupil which we had prior to the 2010 election, a parity from which my schoolfriend and I benefitted hugely (he went to Warwick for Maths).
It hasn't stopped, but the best way for me to do this is face-to-face and by getting out there and making the case. How will I listen to people? With ears, generally.
I'm pretty open about my work on LinkedIn, because heck knows we need some transparency after the Labour Councillor disappeared under a cloud after just two months in the job. I've been lucky to get where I got in life, and Educational Maintenance Allowance, Free School Meals, and the university maintenance grant all helped me do that.
And as someone who lived in an ex council flat in Hackney with three people and no living room or communal space because that was the only place that would let me bring my wife here from abroad, I believe I understand council estate residents and tenants more than you might think.
I believe the earlier poster made an account just to post about this specific council by-election - talk about boosting my ego!
If people want to learn more about my background prior to seeking election to islington council, feel free to do so.
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Post by youknowwhoiam on Aug 4, 2024 21:38:50 GMT
The Labour party win the seat with a split Independent vote.
You are not electable. You do not have a hope in hell of winning and you know why? Because you are a stooge.
The people using you know it.
It is going to be a long fall.33333
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Post by sanders on Aug 4, 2024 21:52:42 GMT
The Labour party win the seat with a split Independent vote. *pins comment*
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Post by youknowwhoiam on Aug 4, 2024 21:54:31 GMT
I feel sorry for you Maxim. I really do.
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Post by sanders on Aug 4, 2024 22:07:24 GMT
A local shop has the campaign signs in the following order - me, the other independent, and Labour - all the right posters, but not, necessarily, in the right order?
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 4, 2024 22:11:27 GMT
A local shop has the campaign signs in the following order - me, the other independent, and Labour - all the right posters, but not, necessarily, in the right order? Very wisely hedging their bets.
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Post by sanders on Aug 4, 2024 22:12:33 GMT
A local shop has the campaign signs in the following order - me, the other independent, and Labour - all the right posters, but not, necessarily, in the right order? Very wisely hedging their bets. Yes kudos to Whitehall Wines there.
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Post by dundas on Aug 5, 2024 10:19:40 GMT
I believe the earlier poster made an account just to post about this specific council by-election - talk about boosting my ego! I wonder what's under your shoes?
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Post by youknowwhoiam on Aug 5, 2024 14:33:34 GMT
The point is you are not actually going represent the local community. You've been put up to run by someone else and you were conned into running Maxim.
Surely you know that the people 'helping you' are going to end up leaving when you lose.
Why do someone else's dirty work and why pretend to be naive when you are obviously not?
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Post by batman on Aug 5, 2024 15:34:20 GMT
I don't know who you are, but while I have been on record repeatedly as being very critical of Maxim I don't think he's a stooge and I do think that the decision to stand was his own. I don't associate myself with some of the other comments either
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Post by stb12 on Aug 5, 2024 16:00:06 GMT
sanders has obviously opened himself up to scrutiny by choosing to stand for election and I’ve said to him to not take things too personally However I do want to give a general warning to everyone to avoid getting personal as a couple of recent comments have been a bit borderline and excessive, particularly from an individual who is just new to the forum which is a bit strange in itself
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Post by johnloony on Aug 5, 2024 16:26:32 GMT
The point is you are not actually going represent the local community. You've been put up to run by someone else and you were conned into running Maxim. Surely you know that the people 'helping you' are going to end up leaving when you lose. Why do someone else's dirty work and why pretend to be naive when you are obviously not? I think that somebody else has conned Maxim into being a candidate, in the same way that Simone Byles is twice as tall as Shaquille O’Neal.
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Post by Khunanup on Aug 5, 2024 16:43:22 GMT
The point is you are not actually going represent the local community. You've been put up to run by someone else and you were conned into running Maxim. Surely you know that the people 'helping you' are going to end up leaving when you lose. Why do someone else's dirty work and why pretend to be naive when you are obviously not? Now this is more interesting. I'd thought that our regular poster was running an unintentionally satirical campaign. Now there's a suggestion that he may have been engaged in performance art on this forum by playing the fool. But you can't just leave it at that hanging, who's he being put up by?
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Post by sanders on Aug 5, 2024 16:55:03 GMT
The point is you are not actually going represent the local community. You've been put up to run by someone else and you were conned into running Maxim. Surely you know that the people 'helping you' are going to end up leaving when you lose. Why do someone else's dirty work and why pretend to be naive when you are obviously not? A lot of claims. No evidence. I’ve not been “put up”, no.
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Post by batman on Aug 5, 2024 17:17:35 GMT
no-one would ever put him up to stand. if so who on earth would it be? it is clear that his decision to stand, whatever our opinions on that, is his & his alone.
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Post by sanders on Aug 5, 2024 17:20:43 GMT
It's funny. No one has ever encouraged me (in a “put up” sense) to run for anything - not the three Oxford Union elections I ran in, not School Ambassador, not this, nothing!
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Aug 5, 2024 17:44:26 GMT
sanders has obviously opened himself up to scrutiny by choosing to stand for election and I’ve said to him to not take things too personally However I do want to give a general warning to everyone to avoid getting personal as a couple of recent comments have been a bit borderline and excessive, particularly from an individual who is just new to the forum which is a bit strange in itself I am rather relieved to see this message, as I had been seriously wondering whether to contact you about the new individual. Their chosen username (which happens to make a statement that would not be true if intentionally addressed to me - and the same lack of truth, I suspect, applies to at least most other members of this forum) and the fact that, so far as I can determine, they have so far posted only in this thread and with statements fairly clearly aimed specifically at sanders , taken together, gives me a vivid impression of someone who is not here to improve the forum but to use it to further their side of a personal feud. And, however little such a feud might damage the rest of us and however annoying we sometimes find certain forum members, we should not let the impression develop that we regard such behaviour as appropriate here.
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Post by youknowwhoiam on Aug 5, 2024 17:47:51 GMT
The point is you are not actually going represent the local community. You've been put up to run by someone else and you were conned into running Maxim. Surely you know that the people 'helping you' are going to end up leaving when you lose. Why do someone else's dirty work and why pretend to be naive when you are obviously not? Now this is more interesting. I'd thought that our regular poster was running an unintentionally satirical campaign. Now there's a suggestion that he may have been engaged in performance art on this forum by playing the fool. But you can't just leave it at that hanging, who's he being put up by? Over many years, observing local Councils from a variety of positions and long ago having learned there is nothing as dirty as political operators who try to take advantage of not just voters but well intentioned candidates - NOTHING SURPRISES ME ANYMORE. I am well aware of the collective experience of this forum that they would agree. So if I sound cynical, it is not intended to criticise those with good intentions, it is more the result of seeing how often they are used. Let's not forget , Labour triggered this by-election WITHOUT explanation and therefore anyone running in THIS by-election will be under extra scrutiny.
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Post by nyx on Aug 5, 2024 17:51:29 GMT
Instinctive feelings on each by-election without having investigated any of them too deeply-
Abergoed and Bargoed- Plaid has been doing well lately in general so I'll take a punt at saying they take it,
Hillrise surely has to be a Labour hold with the non-Labour vote split as much as it is (though the Labour vote share may well drop considerably),
and Dunblane & Bridge of Allan surely has to be a Con gain?
Abergoed and Bargoed seems to be the most interesting of the three in competitiveness
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Post by stb12 on Aug 5, 2024 17:52:06 GMT
sanders has obviously opened himself up to scrutiny by choosing to stand for election and I’ve said to him to not take things too personally However I do want to give a general warning to everyone to avoid getting personal as a couple of recent comments have been a bit borderline and excessive, particularly from an individual who is just new to the forum which is a bit strange in itself I am rather relieved to see this message, as I had been seriously wondering whether to contact you about the new individual. Their chosen username (which happens to make a statement that would not be true if intentionally addressed to me - and the same lack of truth, I suspect, applies to at least most other members of this forum) and the fact that, so far as I can determine, they have so far posted only in this thread and with statements fairly clearly aimed specifically at sanders , taken together, gives me a vivid impression of someone who is not here to improve the forum but to use it to further their side of a personal feud. And, however little such a feud might damage the rest of us and however annoying we sometimes find certain forum members, we should not let the impression develop that we regard such behaviour as appropriate here. Yes, let’s just say for now it’s something I‘ll be keeping a close eye on. Members being critical of each other isn’t knew and while I wouldn’t say any rules have been broken as such yet I don’t think someone signing up purely to attack another member (maybe because of some personal issue or history like you say) is something any of us would approve of
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