The main parties all have an approval process, done well away from election time, and if you haven’t passed the approval process, you can’t apply anywhere to stand. This generally works at parliament… (View Post)

Rather bizarrely, Havering has published the notice of election agents and officers, which includes the names of the candidates they are each agents for, but has failed to published the notice of nom… (View Post)

So at least we now know it’s just made up and doesn’t actually exist ? (View Post)

TBF the LibDems' councillors association - to which many of its more serious candidates join, if not many of the paper ones - puts out a lot of stuff encouraging councillors to be fairly ruthles… (View Post)

The key is to find a way of locating them, ideally through someone else's experience rather than your own, and then have some sort of tag to flag them for ever more as people to be avoided. Most… (View Post)