Think before you vote in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections

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Why we wont be voting for the “independent” candidate

It’s the local elections this Thursday. CSSD doesn’t have any party political affiliations, and tries to ensure we welcome people with different preferences.

We also know that many people are frustrated with political parties and prefer to vote for Independent candidates. Often there are no issues with this, and we have been grateful for the support from councillors who are standing as Community Independents in the Stroud District Council elections.

However, we want to warn people away from voting for the “Independent” candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner position for Gloucestershire: Matthew Randolph.

Matthew Randolph is being supported by the stall which hands out The Light newspaper in Stroud (and the similar stall in Gloucester). His campaign is part-funded by a single anonymous donation of £2,000. [see images below]

Randolph has been using the election to push anti-vaccine and anti-5G ideas – but his website and leaflets do not mention these in anything but a vague “dogwhistle” way. His online presence makes clear his is a climate denier and proudly “tinfoil hat” conspiracist. [see images below]

We won’t tell you who to vote for, but we do think you should all know that Randolph isn’t the sort of Independent candidate to support.

The other candidates in the election are Martin Surl for the Liberal Democrats (who was previously the PCC as an Independent), Ashley Smith for Labour and the Co-operative Party, and Chris Nelson for the Conservative Party (who is the current PCC).

You might not even have known that there was a PCC election – but make sure you vote in it, and vote for anyone except this “independent”.

Stall distributing The Light in Stroud promoting Matt Randolph's posters on its banner
All three parties have signed up to open boarders, destroying farmers and manufacturers, shutting small businesses, fake climate change, net zero, 15 minute cities, central bank digital currency, social credit systems, the end of non essential flights, fluoride in our water, higher retirement age, chemtrails and geo engineering,, money laundering under the guise of foreign aid and the WHO deciding what you must be injected with. Get rid of these compromised WEF puppets and vote independent
Matt Randolph's campaign page shares image of Greta Thunberg holding a sign which has been written over to read "I am a crisis actor and I'M FULL OF SHIT"
Post shared by Matthew Randolph featuring Greta Thunberg holding a sign edited to read "Sorry for all the Lies. It's Fucking Freezing!!"
Post shared by Matthew Randolph with a picture of Mr Bean looking shocked with the text "The moment when you realize that your tinfoil hat-wearing friend was right about EVERYTHING"
screenshot showing £2000 donation to Matthew Randolph's crowdfunder - paid by an anonymous donor (and the total amount raised: £5,449)
Matt Randolphs profile images connecting the posts above to pictures of him
Formal listing of candidates for the election

One thought on “Think before you vote in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections”

  1. Hi Stroud.

    I am the independent person who is standing as a candidate for police and crime commissioner.

    if you wanted a fair transparent chat about what I stand for you could have contacted me directly and I would have given you an interview.

    if any of your followers want to discuss anything before voting my email address is matthewrandolph56@gmail.com and my phone numbers 07855400735. I am available anytime and will gladly answer your questions.

    vote independent vote MATT RANDOLPH

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