At this time of local elections it is worth looking at the history of the CAP in Ashton over the past two years.
In 2006 the then sitting Councillor who represented CAP in the election of 2004 defected to become an Independent BEFORE the election of 2006 but did not bother to tell the electorate of Ashton. So we had the situation of her appearing on the ballot paper in the name of CAP when she had actually left the party.
Last year after the elections the Community Action Party joined with the Liberal Democrats in the Council chamber to form something called the Democratic Alliance. Again no notice was given to the electorate of Ashton that they intended to do this. So in fact if you voted CAP last year you also got Liberal Democrat.
We wonder what surprise they will give us this year.
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I note CAP haven't updated their website and it still points to 2007 local elections.Further West CAP are fielding no candidates at all in St Helens after fielding several in the previous few elections there.It looks like the honeymoon is well and truly over.
sorry, they've updated their website to include "We will use all available resources to make the Community Action Party the most active and credible opposition to New Labour in Wigan, St Helens and Salford"
which translates to no CAP candidates in St Helens this year.And makes CAP "credible opposition" to Labour in St Helens-despite the council being controlled by the Lib Dems & Tories, work that one out :)
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