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Neil, just to put your mind at rest, I am neither a councillor, an ex councillor or someone who wishes to become one.
I am just sick and fed up of your constant criticism of Gayle, who worked extremely hard in her campaign, and would have made a much better councillor than the current incumbant of the St Andrews Ward.
I can well understand why Graham swore at you.

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Ok fair comment, or it will be if you can point out some of my posts where I have criticised Gayle. I bet you can find more of my post's about Gayle that are positive.

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I am neither a politician or a closet gay chav. You are only jealous because I refused your advances.

Welcome back mate, it is a nice change to be harrassed by someone who is good at it.

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I would be interested in seeing how many of the people on here voted in the clayton-le-Moors ward. I know Margaret has already said that she did, but there doesn't seem to be anyone else who has said they did.
As my earlier post said I live in Altham ward so can't vote till next May - when I shall vote for Miles Parkinson.

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i got to thinking about how few people turn out to vote and another reason may be that because so many people in this country are on the run from debt and debt collectors use the electoral role to find people maybe quite a lot of peopel are avoiding been on the electoral role to evede debts

maybe if teh electoral role could only be used for its intended purpouse to list voters and not be shared with anyone esle peopel wouldnt be cautious about been on it

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And I won't. So we're wasting our time really.:)

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Quite honestly 'Yerself' it is entirely up to you, who you want to vote for. But I can't see how I am wasting your time.
Chav has a very good point about people not registering because of debts etc, but if a debt agency wants to find someone, there are lots of other means they can use. In fact you can request not to be on the register that is generally circulated. At elections each candidate has to sign a form agreeing that their copy of the electoral role will only be used for canvassing purposes and nothing else. If you are doing family research in the Library you have to ask to look at the bound copies of the roles, because they are locked up.

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at one time if you wernt on the eletoral role it was very hard to get finance but these days because so many are not on it credit companies dont mind any more

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Interesting. What ward did you vote in?

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I wonder what the general public will think of a Labour Party with Gordon Brown in charge, he is after all the guy who has been setting the budget for the last few years. People may blame him for fuel/booze and fag prices.

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In reply to Chav, I think you will find that it is only certain finance companies that don't mind if you are not on the electoral role. My daughter works for a bank, and was telling me that she often has 18 year olds coming in and wanting to open a bank account, but because their parents have not added their names to the electoral role they get declined. As most employers now operate cashless wage payments, this can be avery serious problem for young people, as with no bank account they have problems getting a job. In fact, it is part of the anti money laundrying laws that any applicant for a bank account has to produce two forms of ID, one to idenitfy them personally and another to verify their address.
Some credit card companies aren't to bothered with ID, as all they are interested in is how much money they will earn in interest rather than a persons ability to pay.