{"id":158,"date":"2015-05-09T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:01:10","slug":"councillor-lupson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/councillor-lupson\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor Lupson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back a while ago, I started writing my own <a title=\"Manifesto \u2013 Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=132\">manifesto<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t get far!\u00a0 Got stuck with God.\u00a0 May come back to it in the future. I was getting fed up with hearing bad news politically and rather than continue to get upset and with nowhere for my anger to go, I decided I&#8217;d better do something.\u00a0 I did get to <a href=\"https:\/\/voteforpolicies.org.uk\/\">voteforpolicies.org<\/a> and discovered the Green Party was for me.\u00a0 Plus it dint cost very much to join and Sandra joined too.\u00a0 Found out about meetings, went to a couple and they needed someone to stand for the local elections in Elland.\u00a0 So because that&#8217;s where I live, I decided to give it a go!\u00a0 A few frustrating meetings later and 2000 leaflets, the election came and 364 people voted for me.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the leaflet me and some very good friends delivered round Elland.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Elland-outside.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Elland-outside-300x203.png\" alt=\"Elland outside\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Elland-outside-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Elland-outside-442x300.png 442w, https:\/\/www.lupson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Elland-outside.png 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My 364 votes were 7% of the vote on the day and were 10% down on the local election result last year but 66% up on the vote at the last general election in 2010.\u00a0 Which is nice!<\/p>\n<p>The count was an interesting experience.\u00a0 We could scrutinise the counters!\u00a0 Scrutinise means look very carefully and we could sit opposite them and were encouraged to point out mistakes &#8211; we were so close you could smell the ballot papers!\u00a0 The Elland station seemed well organised compared to other stations for other wards and our result was second out in about 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens did pretty well overall, but didn&#8217;t win any seats.\u00a0 Boo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back a while ago, I started writing my own manifesto. 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