May the Forth be with you

GOLDENGIRL You should vote otherwise you cant complain about who you get.If your council hasn't been performing well .like ours,then vote them out.Simple.Otherwise you'll be stuck with them for another x number of years

No elections for us today Granny23 and even if there were it wouldn't make any difference. Same bl**dy people have been voted in for the past 70 years! and they're all past it

I don't know who is standing in our local elections. We haven't been canvassed by anyone, or had any leaflets or other information. DH did answer the phone to a very nice lady standing for the Labour party, but he's a life long Conservative voter so I don't think she will be getting his vote. I'm sorry to say, but it's the first time ever that I will not go to vote.

Where I live the only election was for the new mayor. This is after a referendum was held to see if we wanted a mayor. The result of the referendum was something like 66% against. Somehow though, this was not seen to be "the will of the people" and we had a mayor imposed on us anyway. So a referendum is only binding when the Govt says it is, it seems to me. I still voted though.

I've had 1 leaflet through the door. One visit from same person as on leaflet who was from out of our area and knew nothing and that's been it. I've searched on the County website - nothing. So I'm in a quandary. How can I vote for a person I don't think is up to the job or others whose names I know but don't know what their aims are for our area? I think on reflection I'm going to have to give this election a miss. It has been suggested I sully the ballot papers but the outcome will be the same. Our current council is great for buck passing between county and district so I don't think I'm missing anything. I will be voting in the General Election however

our area has been served very well by a man who was at one time a communist candidate and now is Scottish Socialist ,he has done a lot for the area and is always on hand to help with any problems any of his constituents have .He is pro independence .SO in my case it will be SNP 1 and 2 and him third with Greens next the independent candidate then the labour party and tories ...hopefully a lot of others will vote this way too.Our local labour council has been recorded as one of the worst in Scotland for successive years over the past 3 decades,sadly its an area where a monkey wearing a red rosette can win.Hope springs from the fact we managed an SNP MP in 2015 ,so fingers crossed we can get rid of the labour council this time around.