ballot box revenge

The some-might-say "slippery" manoeuvrings of Salford Council over regeneration look likely to come back to haunt them at next week's local elections.
The community of Seedley South hope to give the Labour Party member a kicking through the ballot box after their preferred option for the area - put together at the cost of £10k to the council - was sidelined for not being "transformational" enough.
In a feature I had published in today's Inside Housing magazine, locals explained why they feel so aggrieved about what has happened, and how they hope it could change the outcome of next week's poll.
Just 23 per cent of residents in the Langworthy ward voted in last year's election, yet the sitting Labour councillor scraped in with a wafer-thin majority of just 130.
I'm not party political but it's clear that Salford's apathy is this Labour council's closest ally. Imagine what could happen if more people turn out on Thursday.
It may not save their houses but residents would no doubt feel a whole lot better.