BNP are claiming that the Electoral Commission agree that anti-election material needs to be declared and taken into account at election times.

You can see their story here. I haven’t seen it verified anywhere though.

I won’t put money on it, but I reckon the results tomorrow might look like the following:

City Council:
Morley South- Terry Grayshon (MBI), 2nd Mike Mee (BNP)
Morley North- Bob Gettings (MBI), 2nd Stuart McArdle (Independent) (OR POSSIBLY THE OTHER WAY ROUND, A CLOSE CALL!)
Ardsley & Robin Hood- jack Dunn (Labour) 2nd Joanna Beverley (BNP)

Town Council:
Morley Borough Independents 14
BNP 6
Labour 2
Independent 2

I wouldn’t like to put names in frames for the Town Council though, it is too hard to call.

Labour did a last minute leaflet drop today. A bit late fellas, I went to the polling station at 7:15am.

David Langham is the City Council candidate.- I don’t know him, although I did know his Dad Peter who used to be the Town Council Mace Bearer until his unfortunate death in early 2006. That connection is a bit of a “so what?” to me as I didn’t think it of any relevance to him standing as a Councillor, let alone feature in his shiny leaflet.

I do know the three stooges listed here. Not exactly a hard sell, what?

It is a sad reflection on local Labour that they can only drag along three candidates for the five seats of their only “safe” ward. (and only muster eleven candidates overall when the BNP managed twelve).

A man in pantaloons holding a tribble?

I nipped into the polling station on the way to work. I was about the fifth to vote, although someone followed me in (who wanted to vote for Leeds, but not Morley).

The City Council ballot paper was white, the Town Council one was green and had two columns whilst the sample ballot fixed to the booth was a single column, a contradiction which I thought was potentially confusing for the more hard of thinking voter. As a passing comment, the shade of green for the Town Council ballot was MBI green!

Something else I noticed was the lack of official mark (the stamp out or emboss used to show it came from the polling officer). On querying that I was told “we don’t do that any more”.

(It is still in the rules though about not disclosing what it is).

Both votes went in the same box- one more job to do tomorrow, separating them before bundling, counting and sorting.