At it again today - haven't had a chance this week owing to child care commitments!
So finished off Hale on a beautiful day with those May blooms and smells - it really is an attractive place and very much removed from the nearby urban sprawl which isn't to say that such doesn't have its own advantages.
Hale seems to be a close knit community, the village itself an island in a sea of green belt and arable land. Everybody knowing everyone else and their business which of course like everything has its plusses and minuses.
An issue here as mentioned before is the long protracted subject of Liverpool Airport's (John Lennon Airport) runway expansion. A decision on this has been on hold for some time.
It seems to me that Green Party acitivity in the village could produce fairly positive results in terms of both residents and the Green Party's interests particularly in view of the runway issue. Unlike the Greens none of the parties in Halton are against runway expansion because of isues like climate change although at times the Lib Dems appear ambivalent on the subject.
But its also struck me from chatting to people here because of the closeness of the community and the popularity of the councillor (Labour) who has held the seat for some time that the likelihood of taking the seat in the near future would be minimal.
But as I've mentioned in a previous blog several people in Hale have expressed an interest in having the opportunity to vote Green at local and general elections.
So we'll see what comes of my tentative contacts with a few local residents that I've had in the past couple of weeks.
The Greens position in the polls continues to be encouraging and over the next few days I'll be concentrating on other areas of Widnes. Please help if you can - 0151 423 1692
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