Desmond Jaddoo remains upbeat despite yesterday’s ‘no’ vote in Birmingham’s mayoral referendum.
Jaddoo, who was at the referendum count event, told localmayoralelections, “For some people today it is the end, but for us it is the beginning because we’ve engaged people during the debate… People are engaging in a new voice“.
Whilst other candidates, like Sion Simon, were left disappointed following the news, Jaddoo told us he is hopeful to continue working to tackle the big issues Birmingham faces, like knife and gun crimes and poverty, despite the blow.
However, the 45-year old offered some reasons as to why Birmingham rejected the mayoral proposal. He suggested that people in Birmingham were not aware of the debate and needed to get back on “the political platform“.
He said, “Even out of the 4,300 [people in Birmingham] I addressed, only about 600 knew about the debate at the time“.
Mr. Jaddoo also added that he felt, “seasoned politicians” put their names against the debate and that they believed this would give it more hype and interaction.
“Unfortunately, all they successfully did was turn people off‘, Jaddoo claimed.
By – Bradley Jolly (5/5/12)
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