Hey @DazzaRPD , welcome aboard and welcome to the area! 
I’m not sure it really is clear to everyone how important politics is. I think there is even now, a growing disengagement between the real world and politics. Many people do not take time to understand things - and so are led blindly by the advert, those with the bigger wallet, or upper hand. The world is far more complicated now than it ever was, and the situations far more complicated…
The page for who’s standing in the next local elections in Eastleigh is over here - Who is standing in Eastleigh Local Elections 2021?, feel free to help keep it up to date by hitting reply if you know of corrections / detail. Once you’ve been here long enough to be trusted, you’ll be able to edit it yourself and actively get involved in maintaining it with us.
I still only know of one conservative candidate who announced and haven’t seen anything from any others.
Hottest issues locally are massive overbuilding way above government targets (aka Horton Hearth Development for 2,500 new Homes!), and the Southampton Airport Expansion - for or against?
There are of course many other problems - traffic congestion being a top one, but if you believe the local https://discuss.eastleigh.online/c/eastleigh-politics/political-leaflets/29, everything looks to be Hampshire County Council’s fault! Ho hum! Feel free to help research some of the leaflets and add commentary! I have a political interest myself so have been hoovering up the leaflets so some misleading ‘facts’ can be openly corrected.