AS an election candidate, it's natural you'd want to stand in the most safe seat for your particular party.
However, because there's so few marginals and once someone's in a safe seat it's hard to shift them, there's never enough to go around.
So as a rule, new candidates are rarely parachuted into safe seats (unlike parliamentary elections, it has to be said) until they've had a few stints putting up in True Blue areas if you're Labour, or in Skelmersdale if you're a Conservative.
What this does enable anoraks like me to do, though, is spot potential future councillors.
Here's a few I found earlier...
Labour
- David McKay (Parbold 2002 and Aughton Park 2004 - now councillor for Skelmersdale South)
- Mary Whitby (Burscough East 2006 - standing this year in the stong Labour seat of Digmoor)
- Steve Hanlon (Aughton Park 2003 - now finance spokesman and councillor for Moorside)
- Barry Nolan (Knowsley 2002 - now councillor for Skelmersdale North)
Conservatives
- David Meadows (Ashurst 2006, now Scott Ward councillor)
- Malcolm Barron (Moorside 2004, now a county councillor)
I'm sure there's a few in this year's candidates list aswell, but to be fair to everyone (and to save me from having to take my foot out of my mouth if I get it horribly wrong) I'll leave my predictions until after polling day...
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