…can always be relied upon to throw up a few surprises and may not accurately reflect the voting intentions of a constituency as a whole in a general election setting.
There are many reasons for this, one of them being that well known and well liked local people are more likely to put themselves forward as a candidate in this situation.
These people generally attract good support because they are a familiar face on the streets of the area they wish to represent and have excellent knowledge of the locality. Therefore, they feel that their voice will make a difference to the way things are run in their area. Its all done with good intention, but when they find themselves in a room with many other elected representatives who all want some of the available money for projects in their catchment area, their efforts can be futile. Unless, that is, they become part of one of the many groups which are formed in order to push through a particular issue.
This doesn’t sit well with many councillors who stood solely to gain benefits for their own area.
Suddenly they find themselves voting on issues which are far removed from their agenda, in order that the people who’s issues they voted for will vote favourably for theirs when the time eventually comes. Meanwhile the electorate are impatiently waiting for election promises to be fulfilled, most of which never are , due to the painfully slow nature of council business and pecking order. Many first time councillors are discouraged and don’t stand at the next election.
Surprises usually come in the shape of an unlikely party winning a seat in an area where there was thought to be no possibility of it doing so, and new parties gaining their first seats. One such party is ” The Rubbish Party “, who are totally new to the scene, winning their first seat after running a successful campaign based on cleaning up the streets.
Surprises also came in a couple of unlikely Tory wins in places where, one would have thought, angels would have feared to tread, far less a Tory candidate. 
Of particular personal interest was Ferguslie Park in Paisley where the Tories won for the first time ever. I canvassed there in a Parliamentary by election for an SNP candidate back in the 80’s, along with 2 other activists and apart from one altercation , we were given safe passage and allowed to witness one of the most deprived areas in Britain at the time. However, we knew that our presence wasn’t welcome and we didn’t overstay. So it was with some amusement that I read the news that a Tory candidate had been successful there. Things change and I sincerely hope that it has changed for the better for the people of Ferguslie.
Other results were much as predicted, with Tories gaining seats across Britain in what were once Labour strongholds. This gives an indication of how things may pan out in the June election, but nothing is set in stone. 
However, our Prime Minister must be sighing with some relief, as her totally unnecessary decision to hold an election, might be vindicated. However, there are still some hurdles to be overcome regarding election fraud and a report on Tory abuse of human rights to be published by the United Nations, which can be found here.
Tomorrow’s French election will be the deciding factor in which way Europe will be progressing for the foreseeable future. I don’t wish Macron upon France nor anywhere else, but should he be elected, it may give the British electorate a timely reminder of what is coming their way. I’m almost sure that half of the population are suffering from a type of Stockholm Syndrome.
I honestly hope that we can avoid the future which is preordained for us, but I fear that we have left it too late.
more to come…
The milestone in this case being, that this is article #300 to be published on this website in the 15 months since it began.
Its not hard to guess which one prevailed, and the time span between each episode became shorter, until barely negligible, as time went by.
The time I have invested in where I am today is the best investment I’ve ever made. I’ll never be rich or have a well provided for lifestyle, but by allowing myself time to learn about myself, I’ll be able to make informed decisions about how my future is shaped.
But to class conspiracy theorists in the same vein as famous dissenters like Noam Chomsky, G. Edward Griffin, Alan Watts Howard Zinn and David Icke who also have many other strings to their bows, would be lending credence to the conspiracy theorists ideas which may just as well have been picked up off the street, as far as the mainstream media are concerned.
Why ? Because they are academics and scholars is why. And because of the scholarly nature of their opinions, they are deemed worth listening to and paying heed to, except by the majority of their academic and scholarly colleagues who are too embroiled in the money side of academia to publicly acknowledge the validity of their arguments, lest their gravy train grinds to a halt.
For myself, I couldn’t believe the astonishing ineptitude of those in office and decided to try to find out who actually runs the show. That led me to watch hundreds hours of videos and read many written articles, taking notes as I did so, and I could imagine the same scenario taking place in makeshift workstations all over the world. After that it was simply a matter of applying some of what I had learnt to the real life situations developing in front of my very eyes.
Dissent is healthy in any society because it brings to light any faults in the system and provokes dialogue. The fact that the modern day dissenters are being vilified and their theories being trodden underfoot, demonstrates the seriousness with which administrations actually take them, as they are dangerous to to the government’s agenda.
After all, someone has just taken your trust and respect for them and dashed it against a wall. Therefore, depending on the circumstances, restoring your confidence usually takes some time, during which, a rebuilding of trust can can be allowed to happen.
If the opposite is true then Trump will merely exist as the place at which the buck stops, and as a mouthpiece for a non governmental institution of which Dick Cheney was once Director, a fact which he kept secret from the electorate, and Hilary Clinton went to for advice on foreign policy whilst in government. You Tube video 
All because someone suddenly decided for themselves that no one would want to read their work anyway. Paraphrasing Ian Rankin, he said that in order to be a successful writer, first off one has to write, and write a lot. Then one has to get lucky ( publisher etc ), and stay lucky.
However, I knew that, if and when I started to write, it wasn’t going to be something that was put in a drawer and forgotten about and I published what I wrote on a free WordPress site, and eventually built my own site.
The exit of Britain from this prestigious club has caused mixed emotions, both home and abroad. There exists, amongst those who have known nothing else but Britain as a member of the EU, an uncertainty about our future.
Anything we needed could be produced here, in Britain, including the workers we needed to effect production, therefore unemployment was low. The knock-on effect of the main industries stimulated the growth of many other smaller concerns to support them. And because of this ability to be self sufficient with no immediate threat of another invasion from abroad there was a sense of freedom and genuine happiness among the people, combined with a caring nature which is notably absent today. Our traditional way of life was dismantled in order not to directly compete with other member nations with nothing being put in it’s place to compensate.
Holland and other European countries have denied Turkey and their representatives permission to hold rallies within their borders.
Whatever his reasoning was, it certainly wasn’t with the intention of banding together with other Brits to eventually overthrow the Australian administration in a couple of decades, at the expense of the culture and traditions of native Australians.
It is a lesser known fact, at least in my part of the world, that fluoride is a waste product from the production of aluminium. Is there a problem with disposing of aluminium waste I wonder, as they spray aluminium particles from aircraft in the pretext of reflecting the sun’s rays to stop global warming. However, as we all know, what goes up must come down, and the very nature of microscopic particles mean that they can be easily ingested by humans and animals alike. Vegetation is coated and destroyed and our ocean and water courses and marine life is affected.
It will save and heal itself. How arrogant of us to think we could possibly help, if , indeed, any healing process is required. It didn’t need saving during any other generation’s lifetime so why, all of a sudden, this one ? Scientists want to keep their research grants and politicians are their messengers who want to maintain their justification for existence could be a simplistic answer.
Whilst they protest against one man visiting our country, our National Health Service is being quietly dismantled and sold off in the background, amongst other important issues.
The only real point of interest in Britain for foreign governments is the City of London where the fiscal laundries exist. Apart from that, we have been stripped of anything that anyone else wants or needs that they can’t get cheaper somewhere else.
While watching the right hand, we need to be keeping an eye on what the left hand is doing.
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