Mar 24

Standing for election

Filed under: Politics — Matthew Revell at 12:17 am

I’ve lived in Wolverhampton for seven years and I actually quite like the place. There are things about the city that frustrate me, though.

Take the city council, for example. There’s a sense in Wolverhampton that our council is particularly lazy. Whether that’s true, or not, is hard to say. Certainly, when I’ve tried to email individual councillors, getting a response is difficult. My feeling is that the council is missing opportunities to help make Wolverhampton a better place to live.

So, I’ve decided to stand in May’s local elections, in my own ward of Graiseley.

Of particular interest to readers of this blog, I want to promote the use of open source and issues of information freedom, whether not I’m elected. I’d appreciate any input that people have on that front.

I won’t take up too much space on this blog. Instead, I’ve set up a blog to talk about my campaign and the ways in which I want to help make Wolverhampton better - www.matthewrevell.com

7 Responses to “Standing for election”

  1. MarkTheDaemon says:
    March 24th, 2007 at 3:04 am

    Good on you for standing and I hope you do well and suceed :).

    Mark

  2. Nicholas Butler says:
    March 24th, 2007 at 9:03 am

    Congratulations. I was wondering if I was the only other seek who felt community shouldn’t end at the keyboard.

  3. Tony Whitmore says:
    March 24th, 2007 at 10:34 am

    Well, good luck. Taking on an election campaign with a demanding job and a small baby is going to be very hard work, but you know that! The obvious question is - will the campaign change your involvement with LUG Radio?

  4. Roger Light says:
    March 24th, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    Good luck! I think you’d do well at it.

  5. BuhSnarf says:
    March 24th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    Good luck.

  6. Matthew Revell says:
    March 25th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    Thanks all :)
    Tony, wrt LugRadio: if I get elected, being a councillor would have to come first and so I’d have to consider how to divide my time.

    Three years of LugRadio has been great fun and I’ve met some fantastic people. I’d miss seeing the other gents so often, and I’d miss being so deeply involved in the LR community, but I do wonder, sometimes, if I’ve taken my involvement in LugRadio as far as I can and whether I could spend some of that time more effectively elsewhere.

  7. Alan Pope says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Tonytiger for LUGRadio!