🗳️ Bristol goes to the polls tomorrow - for the first time since we decided to bin the mayoral system, so who will run the city for the next 4yrs is all up for grabs.

Here's a recap of The Bristol Cable's local election coverage to give you the lowdown before casting your vote 🧵

🧵Still not made up your mind for the local elections tomorrow?

Then have a listen to our #BristolUnpacked interviews for the The Bristol Cable with each of the main party leaders.

First up is Bristol Labour Group leader Tom Renhard 🎙️

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📢 Speaker series: On Tue 11 Jun, the Cable invites Mikaela Loach - It’s Not That Radical 📖🇵🇸 to StrangeBrewBristol.

📖 It's Not That Radical empowers readers to reflect on and change how they think about climate, helping us all mobilise for a better future.

👉 Get your tickets: bit.ly/3U7m78J

📆 The ABCs of the New Economy festival is coming to #Bristol this July!

We’re media partner this year = ✨exclusive discounted tickets ✨ for our members!

Discount code comes via our member newsletter.

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⏰ It's less than 24 hours until polling stations open in Bristol – but what if you don't fancy any of the main parties?

⚖️ Alex Turner weighs up your alternatives: bit.ly/3UDseDl

#LE24

We hosted a hustings with candidates from the main parties, who battled it out just a few days before Bristol’s local elections! bit.ly/4aYYvdK

We hosted a hustings with candidates from the main parties, who battled it out just a few days before Bristol’s local elections! bit.ly/4aYYvdK

Great thread here by Matty Edwards on the key takeaways from Neil Maggs's interviews with the party leaders on our Bristol Unpacked podcast. Give them a listen if you haven't already!

📢 Speaker series: On Wed 5 Jun, the Cable invites micha frazer-carroll to PRSC.

📖 Her book 'Mad World' offers a radical alternative view to the pathologisation and systemic gatekeeping of mental health held by our society.

👉 Get your tickets here: bit.ly/3U7m78J

Avon and Somerset is going to the polls to elect the region’s next crime commissioner. We took them to task on their priorities and strategic vision for policing.
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Post-election (May 2), #Bristol council will be run by committee. No mayor anymore; we’ll have cross party collab (in theory) with a housing committee, energy committee etc.

Good to see a positive display from party leaders The Bristol Cable event tonight: “We agree 80%…”

Dyer says the Greens want to work collaboratively with the parties because nobody has a monopoly on good ideas, while Renhard would not comment on approach with other parties, as they’re currently focused on getting as many seats for Labour

Tony Dyer says he’s learnt is that if funding is not available for local councils, they can’t operate properly, regardless of whether we have a mayoral model or not

Lib Dem Jos Clark, whose party has campaigned to get rid of the mayoral system, says nothing is forever and we need to monitor any challenges with the new committee system

Tory Mark Weston says the biggest lesson we’ve learnt is that parties can work together to find solutions - but this requires respect between the parties

📢 Join Bristol Cable in welcoming the prolific Owen Jones for an extraordinary evening at StrangeBrewBristol on Tue 28th May.

👉 Tickets available now with up to 50% off for Cable members: bit.ly/3JUhpGZ

What have we learnt about how the council should be run in recent years? Renhard from Labour says we need to make the committee system work while also making decisions quickly enough so things get done

Bringing in more private investment to tackling climate change is vital, says Dyer. Retrofitting homes is the key, says Clark. Renhard says City Leap is the main way forward, bringing in £700m of private investment, which other areas in the country are looking to copy

🌍 Green Tony Dyer says Bristol doesn’t have a chance of reaching net zero by 2030 despite the city’s best efforts. Labour’s Tom Renhard says the council can get its estate to net zero by then

Tom Renhard Tory Mark Weston says a Bristol underground is a fantasy and there’s no silver bullet solution. Bristol needs a variety of transport solutions working together