Sanders to run for county council seat (From The Oxford Times)

Not content with holding a political monopoly in Littlemore, we now see Labour trying to run the place with a husband and wife double-act. Still, if Mrs Sanders wins the short-call by-election, at least the council tax payers are more likely to see more of her in the Labour heartland of Rose Hill than they ever did of her predecessor! Personally, I'd like to see all councillors - City or County - not to be allowed to Stand after 65, to encourage younger people and to bring fresh ideas into local government and politics. Apart from those who always vote for the same Party (even if their Party bailed-out the bankers!) and political party fanatics, most people are simply fed-up with traditional political parties, and Labour in Oxford has failed to address issues like the homeless, and in Cowley and Littlemore, the promise of new playgrounds and face-painting parties won't help resolve the shameless levels of child deprivation and social inequality - which 13 years of socialist Labour government didn't resolve, either!

OcityC already has the Labour comedic duo of "Pressel and Fry" (emancipated wives seem reluctant to share the husband's surname), in Jericho/Osney and North Oxford. At least at County it'd be "Sanders and Sanders" (and too much of a bad thing, IMO).

At a city council meeting Gill Sanders once pretended not to understand what "conflict of interest" means. She came across to me in that chamber as a tad disingenuous, or thick, and quite possibly both.