`People will vote on the issues'.RUSSELL Goodway said today it was ``heartening'' to learn that people want to seek election to the council. He added: In a multimember ward it is difficult to see how anyone can successfully campaign against any individual candidate. Any candidate will be one amongst many. ``In any case personality contests rarely get people anywhere - certainly not the local electors electors, in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors). . ``The electors of Ely will, as they always have, want to make up their minds on the important issues that face them in their everyday lives. I predict that there will have little sympathy with anyone who is trying to turn an important election into a trivial personality contest. ``They will consider the issues and conclude that independent councillors are rarely effective in the modernised Adj. 1. modernised - brought up to date; "modernized methods" modernized progressive - favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools" world of local government. ``It is important to Ely to be represented by Labour councillors serving in a Labourcontrolled council. That is the way to achieve improvements in their neighbourhood. ``There is much happening in the ward and much more is planned as part of Labour's neighbourhood renewal strategy for the City. The people of Ely will not want to jeopardise Verb 1. jeopardise - pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten exist, be - have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" all of that at this crucial juncture.'' |
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