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SALFORD GOES TO THE POLLS WITH THREE ELECTIONS
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Star date: 6th May 2021 GM MAYOR, SALFORD MAYOR AND ALL SIXTY COUNCIL SEATS UP FOR GRABS Today Salford residents get to vote for their preferred candidates in three elections – for Salford City Mayor, Greater Manchester Mayor and for all seats in the local council. Each ward sees all three seats up for grabs, so voters get three votes on this, plus a vote for Salford City Mayor (and second choice), and a vote for Greater Manchester Mayor (plus second choice). For full details click here...
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Today, the Salford electorate get five first choice votes in three separate local elections – for Council, for Salford City Mayor and for Greater Manchester Mayor. For the local Council election, each ward has all three seats up for grabs, so in this ballot residents get three votes (the white ballot paper). For Salford City Mayor, people can vote for their first and second choice (the green ballot paper), as they can with the Greater Manchester Mayor ballot (the yellow ballot paper).* If voting in person, you should wear a face covering, while well behaved dogs are allowed into the polling station. You don't need your poll card, just your name and address, and you should try to bring your own pen or pencil, although there are some available at the station. Polling stations are open from 7am until 10pm tonight, and the votes will be counted from 11am on Friday 7th May for the local elections, and from 11am on Saturday 8th May for both mayoral elections. The results will be published on the Salford Star website. For a full run down of candidates standing, see previous Salford Star articles... For local council election details – click here
For Salford City Mayor details – click here
For GM Mayor details – click here
* There's some handy YouTube videos on all this from Salford Council which hardly anyone has watched – Ballot Papers Explained (269 people watched) click here
What to Expect at the Polling Station (74 people have watched) – click here
The Salford Star does not endorse any candidate or political party standing in the elections.
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at 23:17:14 on 07 May 2021 |
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| yeah salford is red we are wise to the destructive tory scum who kill our people by neglect and cruelty as for the working class tories of hartlepool and the class traitors of salford i dont know if i could cry or laugh at you you flag shagging goons contempt to you all so i am going to laugh my head off oh oh oh. |
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The Truth Hurst wrote
at 17:10:41 on 07 May 2021 |
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| Fix the pot holes in the road, have a good education system, a decent health system, a police service that actually records crimes and captures criminals, and decent housing stock (social and private) ... just how hard is it to give people what they want ? |
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at 16:24:54 on 07 May 2021 |
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| @ wrote 11.00: Yeh they’re winning seats because the Labour Party has the same attitude as you. Your childish, arrogant, insulting and condescending attitude is why voters have voted elsewhere. You’ve displayed it here for all to see, on a public forum, like many other people like you do all over the web. All you do is accuse others of being Tories, name call and push people away. What you need to do is listen to your actual grassroots supporters (not momentum), and not talk down to them like they don’t know anything and take them for granted. You’re so angry. Throwing your toys out of the pram and blaming everyone but yourselves will not change a thing. People like you are the best Tory vote winner than anything the Tories could ever buy - and they get it for free. |
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at 11:00:02 on 07 May 2021 |
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| yeah yeah yeah no one votes tory but they win seats very strange in for another ten years of sleaze and the selling off of britain once again like the selling off of our industries if the tories had souls they would sell them and if priti patels tory police bill gets through ypu tory nimbys will be getting nicked for protesting when working class people have been shit on and realise they have been mugged by johnson and co they will kick them out like major went in 1997 fortunately many of you tory voters will get it in the neck along the way. the tories negligence of the nhs over the last ten years led to the deaths of many people during the covid pandemic this pile of scum gave money to each other cronyism and then offer i per cent pay rises to nurses more food banks more poverty more theft of the tax payers money more sleaze more lies more homeless more misery and the party to deliver this to you the party in power the tory party its business as usual 40 years of tory misrule to continue thats what you vote for when you vote tory. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 10:30:06 on 07 May 2021 |
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| Personally I'm not in favour of large majorities -
it leads to complacency and sloppy policy making!
Take for example how John Merry,as council leader,used his majority;he made cut after cut,supported counter revolutionary academies and pursued a vendetta against local media,including the
Salford Star.
Not that the 'opposition' are any better! Karen Garrido,nice person,but lousy politician . Her main platform seemed to be the defence of 'bourgeois privilege'. Ditto for Rabbi Saunders - his bid to become mayor sank without trace.
As to the crazies,Mary Ferrer and Joe O'Neil, egotistic numbskulls who have no answers to Salford's problems. |
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at 09:25:44 on 07 May 2021 |
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| @ wrote 23.13: There you go ladies and gentlemen, you are “working class Tories”, “stupid idiots” and “stupid twats”. Wrote it’s that type of attitude why people went to the Tories in the first place. You just never learn. You just lost Hartlepool and many Councils are swinging to the Tories. Labour is losing seats to Boris Johnson and his sleezy Tories when you should be ahead in the polls and gaining seats. Your attitude to your own heartlands is why Labour is being hammered, and you still carry on blaming them for everything. Corbyn was weak and spineless, he was a eurosceptic all his life until his party told him he wasn’t. He then dithered about it then started talking of a ‘people’s vote’, even though we already had a vote on EU membership and we voted to leave. That’s undemocratic. Why should we vote for him or Labour when he listens to his ministers but not the people? Labour locally are just as bad, how can you expect us to vote for a Labour Council that are flogging our land and social housing to developers in an effort to gentrify us? As for PFIs yes the Tories introduced them but they proliferated under Labour. And for the record, I’ve never voted Tory in my life and never will, but I can see why many have. |
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at 23:13:21 on 06 May 2021 |
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| no wrote 14 50 wrong john major the sleazey tory started pfi and the privatisation of the nhs was started by tory thatcher who started it on the nhs cleaners and support staff and continued with tory blair blair was not labour you working class tories just had an opportunity to vote for a real labour government under jeremy corbyn instead you stupid idiots voted for a proven lying spiv in johnson you fools need to wake up and look at policies not personalities every one of you who voted tory voted for food banks more homelessness hire and refire and a lying spiv greedy culture and you will all pay the price for it you short sighted stupid txxts. |
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Stephen Kingston wrote
at 16:09:35 on 06 May 2021 |
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| See Truth Hurts comment below...If I ever say 'Vote for me' please put a bullet through my head! |
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at 14:50:33 on 06 May 2021 |
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| @ wrote12.57: As for killing the NHS, it was Labour who introduced private elements to it in the 90s and 2000s. A feat even the Tories didn’t manage. I suppose it’s ok when Labour does it? By the way, I’m NOT a Tory, just putting that there before you resort to the usual “You’re just a Tory parasite!” bollocks. And also I’m not tacitly supporting the Tories by pointing out Labour’s short comings or not voting for Labour. That kind of thinking belongs in a despotic regime. |
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at 14:40:05 on 06 May 2021 |
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| @ wrote 20.57: As opposed to Labour I assume? The party of PFIs, invasion of Iraq, ignoring the Brexit result and who tried to over turn it for years? The party that called it’s own heartlands “thick”, “stupid” and “racist”? The party that, locally, is gentrifying Salford massively and letting developers get away with council land and housing while giving very little back? The Labour that in Salford Council don’t like any over site and class everything as ‘commercially sensitive’ and issue vailed threats of legal action if certain things are made public? That Labour? Who needs Tories in charge when Labour have demonstrated nationally and locally they’re just as shite as the Tories. The “better the devil you know” attitude doesn’t work and hasn’t for a long time, it just results in the status quo. And in Salford’s case, or one example anyway, that means a loss of social housing and gentrification, shop keepers like Mo being squeezed out of the area because people like him and the rest of us aren’t welcome in Salford Labour’s new Salford. |
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The Truth Hurts wrote
at 13:35:10 on 06 May 2021 |
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| As always .. I will be voting for neither the Tories or Labour.. Use your own mind and do not believe what you are told @wrote12.57 the Tories have a better record of spending and protecting the NHS than the labour party which cut hospital beds by over 26,000 last time they were in power. Sad to see the Salford Star closing down -- I hope Steve Kingston decides to take up politics -he would be the best Mayor/MP that Salford has ever had. |
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at 12:57:26 on 06 May 2021 |
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| the tories kev the party that killed the nhs and will kill many more oh you silly fools. |
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at 10:14:38 on 06 May 2021 |
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| @ Alice: I voted at 8am. I was first and got a clap for it lol |
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Kev wrote
at 10:09:06 on 06 May 2021 |
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| And I wonder which party will walk it again, simply because 'me grandad voted for them, me dad voted for them...'? |
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Alice wrote
at 09:25:48 on 06 May 2021 |
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| Just voted at 9.20.am Expected a crowd! Took my pencil and sharpener...didn’t want anything to go Wrong! After wearing my mask every day for 14 months I arrived today at polling station without! Obviously overcome by the thought of voting for so many people. Never worry the staff have boxes of masks, sanitiser and, I was pleased to notice , packets of biscuits to keep them going till 10 pm.
Done my duty and now hoping those I have voted for will do theirs. Best wishes. |
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