We took to West Brom High Street to see how people were feeling about the upcoming local elections.
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00:00First of all, will you be voting in the election on May 2nd?
00:05Not really, because I haven't got a clue who to vote for, you know what I mean?
00:10Yeah, okay. I mean, have you looked at it, you know, have you thought about it?
00:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:16Why don't you know who it is?
00:17Well, if I thought I was going to vote, it would be for Conservatives again.
00:24What do you think of the job that the council's doing at the moment?
00:29I haven't got any good votes from the council at the moment.
00:32Why is that?
00:33Well, if you've got someone with, you know, your premises, we've got a council out, so nothing gets done.
00:43And you're having to wait a long time for repair jobs and stuff like that.
00:50Yeah.
00:52What are, you know, for you, when you think about, if you thought about how you were going to vote,
00:57what were the important issues you'd want sorting out?
00:59Well, health service, for one.
01:01Yeah, but if the council doesn't do that, the council's not going to do anything.
01:03Yeah.
01:05On a local level.
01:06On a local level, more jobs done on the premises we live in, like.
01:11Yeah, so it's housing for you.
01:13Housing, yeah.
01:14Yeah. I mean, I suppose Sandlow Council would say they don't have enough money to do it, wouldn't they?
01:19Yeah, but they have my money every year.
01:21Yeah.
01:22So where's that going?
01:23Yeah.
01:24Yeah.
01:27OK, so well, thanks ever so much for your time.
01:29No problem.
01:30Bye Mark.
01:31So how will you be voting in the election then?
01:33I'll be voting for the Green Party.
01:34Yeah, and why is that?
01:35Because of the environments, the pollution in the rivers, also on the roads, potholes.
01:46So I just think, hopefully they'll do a better job.
01:49Yeah.
01:50What do you think of the job that the peasants, the Labour council's doing at the moment in Sandwell?
01:54Do you think they're doing a good job or not?
01:56Yeah, in general, I mean, they provide good services.
02:00Yeah.
02:02Like the bins, you know, a lot of them, they have to pay.
02:06I mean, you do have to pay for the green one, but others, you know, you get like plastic bags and stuff.
02:13Yeah.
02:14Yeah.
02:15So if you're happy with the job they're doing, do you think the Greens will do a better job then?
02:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:22Yeah, just listen to the news, you know, you just see all the things that are going wrong.
02:28Just a way of putting things right, you know.
02:30Yeah.
02:32OK, so well, thanks very much.
02:33OK, no problem.
02:34What's your name please, sir?