Travels of a Fish Nut

So it's all over. I've delivered over 3,000 leaflets and my feet are still recovering, I've spoken to a lot of people and I've even had people say they'll vote for me! How many, I'll find out tomorrow (well, later today by the time this gets posted). It's been interesting and I've learned a lot. There's a great deal I'd do differently if/when I run again but I'm just really pleased that I've actually done it. I've stood as a candidate for the county council! My name's been on an official ballot paper!!

I restarted this blog just over a year ago with a rant about how the government was failing the country. I can’t remember what was the straw that broke the camel’s back and forced me to putting technological pen to paper. I think it was reading about the phenomenal amount of money wasted on a badger cull that seemed doomed to failure whilst the government was cutting funding to much more needed services. I’ve done quite a bit of complaining since then – about the cuts to the Disabled Students Allowance that was ‘backed up’ by an appalling misuse of irrelevant statistics; about the  demonisation of immigrants ; and about cuts to benefits and the excessive demands made of those on unemployment benefit .

Last Wednesday Nailsea Town Council sat to discus Lidl’s application and vote to recommend either approval or rejection of the application to North Somerset Council. After a summary of the public meeting the previous Friday, comments from the public in attendance and comments from the councillors themselves, a vote was taken on the proposal that, to paraphrase, while the council is not opposed to Lidl coming to Nailsea they are recommending that the application be refused. The proposal was unanimously approved.