Election Window Posters: How's your neighbourhood?

[ChrisD]

Here in Exeter there are a few Ben Bradshaw Labour posters and staked signs (what are they called?). He's been MP for 17 years and they've clearly got new and old ones (I wonder if they'll still show the young Ben when he has gone completely grey?) Yesterday to the horror of my street someone on the next road has put a garage door sized UKIP sign up on a prominent corner... I think that will spur on my neighbours to get their green and red signs up. Not sure is TUSC has any.

 

[DotCommunist]

signposts

 

[belboid]

Still hardly anything up round my way. A few Labour posters, rather fewer Greens, nothing else. Kinda mirrors the literature we have received - one from TUSC and nothing else. Almost as if they all think it's a foregone conclusion.

There are a few more in town, more evenly Labour/Green split, but otherwise, you'd hardly notice there was an election on.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Here in my little corner of Chuka Umunna's Streatham constituency... I

Know very little about him, but the first few times I saw him on the box I assumed he was a tory.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Know very little about him, but the first few times I saw him on the box I assumed he was a tory.

After his verbal fart last week of "I didn't get into politics to tax anybody", I'm not convinced he isn't at least a fucking crypto-Tory!

 

[Lo Siento.]

Cycling from home to uni via Dalston, Islington, Angel, Bloomsbury, last three had plenty of Labour posters. Mostly on the most affluent looking houses (council & housing association had none whatsoever).

 

[marshall]

In the 'Golden Triangle' area of Norwich, almost every house has a Labour post/er in the front garden, street after street; with a very occasional Green.

 

[starfish]

It's mostly re-elect Caroline Lucas ones with the odd Labour thrown in.

 

[mr steev]

There are dozens of Labour posters round here. I've only seen one Lid-dem one, two Tory ones and one Ukip (on a big old posh house)
My two local Asian shops both have a Tory poster up, but one of those also has a pile of flyers for a May Day workers thing.

It's a traditional Tory seat (Enoch Powells old constituency), but Labour won a couple of terms from the late 90's. It was close last time but the Tories just won by a couple of hundred

 

[crossthebreeze]

A few Labour posters, and one or two UKIP, no-one else (in west end of Newcastle) - its a safe Labour seat (Chi Onwurah) and i can't see that changing. There's far fewer posters of any sort (and a distinct lack of Lib-Dem ones) then the last couple of elections.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

A few Labour posters, and one or two UKIP, no-one else (in west end of Newcastle) - its a safe Labour seat (Chi Onwurah) and i can't see that changing. There's far fewer posters of any sort (and a distinct lack of Lib-Dem ones) then the last couple of elections.

The only time it's not been Labour is 83 when the SDP split the vote

 

[Chick Webb]

We've got mostly Labour, Greens and Tories (in that order of popularity) in the windows around here, and there is also a guy daubing UKIP on every wall, paving stone and phonebox all around Kilburn, Cricklewood and Willesden. Also he wrote "say no to leftwing fascism" in crappy bubble writing in the phonebox across the road from my local.

 

[StoneRoad]

Juding from the posters very close to my gaff here, the labour vote is good, but just a pocket in an immensely safe tory seat, sadly. No sign of libdems, but the odd green / ukip one.

Interestingly, a libdem supporter known to me will be voting labour this time, as they were p1**ed off over the tuition fees u-turn /lies and the sitting labour MP has a very good constituency system/team who really support people.

 

[muscovyduck]

Apparently there's a few UKIP/Conservative ones down the road from me, main one though is businesses campaigning to put local business first or something. Sounds well Tory. Local paper been going hard on the 'SAS hero stands for UKIP' but their 'battlebus' got a parking ticket when it was in town the other day.

 

[Cerberus]

Lewisham West (where I live): a couple of Labour posters and that is it
Next Door in Lewisham East however,: Heidi Alexander (Labour) posters and placards in far more evidence
Dulwich and West Norwoood (Tessa Jowell's old seat): mostly Labour with a couple of LD's and Green
Bermondsey: Lots of Labour; one TUSC......and none for Simon Hughes
Croydon Central: Tory; Labour; Green;UKIP - a real battleground

Going through Twickenham and Teddington the other day and if posters are any gauge at all Vince Cable will be returned....

Was out in Kent and Surrey at the weekend and UKIP very much in evdience..

 

[Bernie Gunther]

2-3 Green posters, 1 UKIP (complete with union jack on a flagpole, I think he used to be BNP) nothing else that I've seen.

Our MP is 'Mad Frankie' Field though, and it's the third safest Labour seat in the country or thereabouts, so not much at stake here.

 

[JTG]

Was in Nailsworth (Stroud) the other night and it seems solidly Labour. David Drew looking to make a comeback after losing in 2010

Round here - plenty of Greens round St Marks Road. Stapleton Road shops are mostly Labour with a couple of Lib Dems. Handful of posters supporting the (presumably) Somali Tory candidate for the council, often alongside Labour posters

 

[tufty79]

Alliance for Green Socialism signs round here, and nowt else (again)

 

[brogdale]

Going through Twickenham and Teddington the other day and if posters are any gauge at all Vince Cable will be returned....

Though he had a healthy 2010 majority, the LDs seem nervous about Twickenham. Here in Carshalton & Wallington there has been little evidence of many activists on the ground...they've been shipped NW round the 'golden crescent' to help counter the vermin's attack and dig Vince and Davey out of bother. I don't think they'll keep all 4 of the SW GL seats.

 

[Sue]

Cycling from home to uni via Dalston, Islington, Angel, Bloomsbury, last three had plenty of Labour posters. Mostly on the most affluent looking houses (council & housing association had none whatsoever).

I'm in Hackney North and Stoke Newington. There're a couple of Green ones and a Labour leaflet someone's stuck in the window in a side street round the corner and none on the main road where I live. I've a 50 minute walk to work (which also goes through Hackney South and Shoreditch and is on a very main road) and there are literally three I walk past, all Labour.

Was in a more affluent bit of the constituency the other night and quite a few Diane Abbott posters and a couple of Green ones. Walked along Whitechapel High St/Road as far as the Genesis earlier and didn't see any posters at all.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've only seen one in the wider area where I live - a labour one. But then the turnout in this constituency is usually low, so not entirely surprising.

 

[William of Walworth]

Here in Swansea East there are a tiny handful of Labour ones, and I mean tiny. One Green poster -- that householder is well out of the loop though, because the Green candidate dropped out for so far unknown reasons. Maybe it remains as a "sod it -- I still support them anyway" thing.

A few more Labour ones in Swansea West, plus a few Byron Davies (Tory) ones nearer the posher bit of Mumbles. Also, a Green one in the house of our hippy/occasionally festival-going friends there. But still, all posters at a premium --- very few anywhere. The solitary Lib Dem one we saw looked so battered and faded that it must have been exhumed from 2010

There were quite a few Labour ones in Pontyclun/Llantrisant when we went there yesterday (for beer purporses ), maybe Owen Jones ("Re-elect .... " ) is a bit more popular locally.

 

[Duncan2]

You could be forgiven for thinking the Election had been called off if you lived in Rugby and Kenilworth,the vermin's constituency office put up a couple of dozen really expensive and in -your -face -unpleasant canvas posters for Pawsey junior and a shabby UKIP flag of St George appeared very briefly beside one of them and all have since vanished without trace.Sad to say I suspect there are now many people who no longer dare to hope that things will ever get better.In total contrast I was in NW Leicestershire yesterday which is economically one of the most depressed and depressing areas in the Midlands and there were McMahon for Labour posters everywhere.

 

[Dogsauce]

I popped over to Otley to watch the bike race this afternoon, going via Leeds North West constituency & returning mostly via Pudsey constituency. Both marginals, loads of boards out everywhere, including quite a few massive ones for the incumbent Tory in Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) proclaiming him a 'local champion' over a mugshot of his fat Gary Barlow face. I'd say I saw mostly Tory, then labour, then green (mainly Leeds NW) with a smattering of lib dem and a couple of UKIPs. This was in the leafy suburbs, so not representative of the whole districts.

 

[JimW]

It'd been all Labour here bar one sad Lib Dem lozenge in a window in Amberley I spot when I walk down to the football, but Greens must have been out in the week as saw three or four on the bus route home Friday. Heard tell of Tory (incumbent) posters on some of the outlying farms but not seen one myself - actually, tell a lie one on 'nice' the estate up the road.

 

[joevsimp]

only Labour ones around here. (south central reading)

saw labour and ukip on next-door houses on my ride home from work on Friday. Interestingly, both candidates are scientists by trade in one of the only seats outside of Oxbridge and London where that's relevent (Wantage, tory held)

 

[brogdale]

Not much evidence of the GE in the central Croydon part of Croydon Central...apart from this repugnant Barfwell spectacle in the empty office block, (vermin don't do irony), above 'Sheep'.

Urgh

 

[William of Walworth]

Tory squatters in 'taking over empty office building' shocker. Poor effort with just those few posters though. The least they could have done is brought in a sound system and racked up the noise all night

 

[Ranbay]

Not many near me in Splott but the ones i have seen are all Labour.

as is the one in our window

 

[SpookyFrank]

A few labour posters dotted around. A tory poster would be a recipe for getting a brick put through your window round here, ditto UKIP.

There's a green party poster on my house but I didn't put it there.