Leicester elections 2011

The elections in Leicester South LE2 this week are building up to a zzzzzzz. The Mayoral campaign looks like a three horse race with 13 candidates. I predict Peter Soulsby, who resigned as MP to fight for the Mayorship, will probably win. The independent Rick Moore is good. The LibDem is well, what shall I say?

The local council elections has produced a Labour candidate  - 22 year old black out gay man who will surely go far...A DMU law graduate, he is eating his dinners at Lincoln's Inn and I will not be surprised, one day, to see him in the cabinet. The Conservatives are probably going to win this ward's three seats but I hope Labour has a decent, but not too large, majority on the City Council.

AV? On balance  I will vote YES or NO but my motives are so mixed. Baroness Warsi is against it, David Cameron is against it, etc.