{"id":9648,"date":"2021-04-29T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:21:14","slug":"greens-take-impressive-lead-in-recycling-box-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=9648","title":{"rendered":"Greens take impressive lead in recycling box poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>It&#8217;s one week to go to the elections for Bristol City Council, the elected Mayor of Bristol (<em>with 2 of the 9 candidates standing for election to the office vowing to hold a referendum with a view to abolishing the autocratic post. Ed.<\/em>), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk\/\">West of England Combined Authority<\/a> Mayor and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avonandsomerset-pcc.gov.uk\/\">Avon &amp; Somerset Police &amp; Crime Commissioner<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>My recycling box is rapidly filling up with election materials as the parties all vie for my cross against their candidates&#8217; names on the four ballot papers (<em>Hint to canvassers: don&#8217;t bother with my house any more; I&#8217;ve already voted by post! Ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\r\n<p>Following the arrival on the latest leaflet on the doormat, the poll has been updated and now shows the following state of the parties.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9667\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/04\/recycling_poll_29_4.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of spreadsheet showing Greens with 4 leaflets and other parties with 1 each\" width=\"408\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/04\/recycling_poll_29_4.png 408w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/04\/recycling_poll_29_4-300x105.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The Greens seem determined to win Lawrence Hill ward and are pulling out all the stops. As they&#8217;re normally in fourth place, the Tories have managed on token leaflet as have the Liberal Democrats, who were once renowned for their zeal in bunging up letterboxes with their literature.<\/p>\r\n<p>Why has there only been one Labour leaflet? Is this a symptom of lower levels of activism in the wake of members deserting the party after the election of Keir Starmer (<em>whom some unkindly refer to as Keith. Ed.<\/em>)?<\/p>\r\n<p>All will become clear next week.<\/p>\r\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one week to go to the elections for Bristol City Council, the elected Mayor of Bristol (with 2 of the 9 candidates standing for election to the office vowing to hold a referendum with a view to abolishing the autocratic post. Ed.), the West of England Combined Authority Mayor and the Avon &amp; Somerset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[40,36,20],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9675,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions\/9675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}