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Election Window Posters: How's your neighbourhood?

I wish another party would come along and take the mantle from the now defunct Natural Law Party. Every election should have at least one hippy outfit.

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The SP are involved in no2eu. What did the leaflet say?
A pick and mix from UKIP, Tpry, Referendum and BNP iirc. Binned it after a quick read and now its covered in shite so i ain't fishing for it sorry :D

E2A I'd guess the renationalisation stuff and anything else remotely 'left' probably came from whatever input the sp has purportedly had...

E2A (again): Just had a quick scan and it wasn't no2eu, it was one from "we demand a referendum" and one from "an independence from europe". :facepalm:

Sorry, all the anti-eu parties are starting to blur together for me now... the amount of EU-related negativity and immigrant bashing is overwhelming and just turning into a xenophobic white noise... =/
 
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none at all in Central Reading, safe Labour, Lib Dems have given up and I'm not in the ward that the Greens hold (their de-facto HQ is on the next street over though)

Park wards full of green party posters. Tryna think where their HQ would be if not in park ward, given all three councillors live there?
 
I know.

They do appear to have ditched the rest of Reading to focus on holding Park. I think they'll struggle. And iirc only have two candidates up for election there.

I'm good friends with Rob White. They have limited resources, so have to concentrate on holding what they have, especially when its pretty close with labour in park. They also had one councillor resign mid term, which is why they have two up for election in park this year - twice as much to lose so presumably why they're so focused on the area. Rob said they'd like to expand, but they need to consider where they can build some support.
 
I'm good friends with Rob White. They have limited resources, so have to concentrate on holding what they have, especially when its pretty close with labour in park. They also had one councillor resign mid term, which is why they have two up for election in park this year - twice as much to lose so presumably why they're so focused on the area. Rob said they'd like to expand, but they need to consider where they can build some support.

Yeah. Figures. They don't seem to have huge numbers of activists or resources, so understandable to focus on Park.

Rob seems to have a good profile locally though.
 
Had a Labour one delivered now. Apart from the Miliband picture on the front :hmm: , it's not actually that bad inside, just bland. Focussing on jobs, cost of living, even mentions employment rights -- all very vague though. I suspect the Welsh Labour ones are less annoying than elsewhere possibly ...
 
Got six leaflets through the door this morning.
1 Tory.
1 English Democrat.
3 UKIP.
They obviously either printed too many or are struggling to get their message across
 
I haven't seen a single poster round here.

Over the past couple of weeks, I've had flyers from UKIP and TUSC introducing their candidates in my ward, plus a Euro one for the Greens.

I've also had a Royal Mail delivered one from the Tories, and an email from my union (Unite) urging me to vote Labour.

So far there's been nothing through the door from Labour, who have this part of Haringey totally sown up. Presumably they assume they can win without any campaigning on the ground, and they're probably right :(
 
No complacency here - I'm in a very safe labour seat with well-regarded and very active local councillors, yet they've put far and away the most effort into their local election leaflet (I haven't had any other local ones, just Euros). It might be because they have a new candidate replacing one who is retiring, so making more effort introducing her to the electorate.
 
I think labour came knocking last night. Missed them though as was putting daughter to bed. They appear to be the only party campaigning in my ward.

What's really pleasing is the complete absence of fucking "Focus" and theLibDems. Haven't even had a Euro mail shot from them.
 
Not a sniff of Lib Dems here either - they're normally busy over in the University area but bet they daren't show their faces there now. I'm going to enjoy shouting 'Taxi for Greg Mulholland!' next year.
 
first labour one has gone up in my street. and the defaced ukip billboard has been replaced with another ukip poster, the first i have seen that hasn't been defaced.
 
can you check your knowing german privilege and run us a rough translation?

Jawohl, mein kleine arschloch.

The poster is from the main far-right party, the National Democrats. They're hating on some bloke called Ali, who they accuse of being a criminal, and who they say should be sent back to his 'heimat' or homeland 'aber schnell', but quickly.

The rhyming couplet underneath is basically 'what this idiot doesn't know is that Germany is Ali's homeland'.
 
arschloch is arseole isn't it :(


cheers though.


There has been a disappointing lack of anything proper loon so far. And labour appear to have decided that this area is not worh the bother and money of convincing my kettering breds away from hard right options
 
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