Election Window Posters: How's your neighbourhood?

[free spirit]

Apparently the Lib Dems think that a leaflet loudly proclaiming that only the 'lib dems or labour can win here' would in some way make me want to vote Lib Dem.

I reckon that's a serious mistake, I'd not realised how close Labour had come last time, or how far behind the tories were.

Still trying to decide between Alliance for Green Socialism, Greens or Labour.

 

[William of Walworth]

Everytime I see the name Geert Wilder, I read it as Gene Wilder.

I wish there was a Gene Wilder party

And I respond with this ...

 

[William of Walworth]

Apparently the Lib Dems think that a leaflet loudly proclaiming that only the 'lib dems or labour can win here' would in some way make me want to vote Lib Dem.

I reckon that's a serious mistake, I'd not realised how close Labour had come last time, or how far behind the tories were.

Still trying to decide between Alliance for Green Socialism, Greens or Labour.

If the LD's have a sitting councillor, the only vote is a tactical vote .... (IMO like!)

 

[peterkro]

If the LD's have a sitting councillor, the only vote is a tactical vote .... (IMO like!)

This is a bit of a conundrum for me,I have a choice between Lib-Dems (have parish stitched up and all three councillors),the greens and Labour.I'm loath to vote Labour but they are the only party likely to oust the lib-dems.What the fuck to do.Hold my nose and vote Labour I guess.

 

[free spirit]

If the LD's have a sitting councillor, the only vote is a tactical vote .... (IMO like!)

maybe

If the LD's have a sitting councillor, the only vote is a tactical vote .... (IMO like!)

maybe, kinda thinking of voting green at the Euros to hopefully beat the BNP, and torn between labour and Alliance for Green Socialism for the locals.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

And I respond with this ...

Noddy Holder doesn't sound anything like Geert Wilders though??

 

[William of Walworth]

Spanky Longhorn : No, but the hat! Just jesting anyway

 

[Roadkill]

If the LD's have a sitting councillor, the only vote is a tactical vote .... (IMO like!)

Hmm, not sure about that. The councillor up for election in my ward is a Lib Dem, and former council leader to boot. Tbf to her she isn't a bad councillor, as the four communications I've had through my door from her - three leaflets and a ward newsletter - have stressed. I want rid of her because she's a Lib Dem, but I'm not going to vote Labour to do it. I'm voting Green, who seem to be campaigning pretty hard here, probably partly because Green Port Hull getting the final go-ahead has pushed issues like renewables up the local agenda. They might be right if they think some of that will rub off on them, although sadly so might the Tories, who are also campaigning harder than they used to in council elections here: Cameron was pretty damn quick to try and claim the credit, the fucking hypocrite. Meanwhile, Labour have only dropped one leaflet through my door, as have the Kippers, who aren't fielding a candidate for this ward, although they most certainly are in less affluent areas of the city.

I still haven't seen a single window poster, and only one car sticker and billboard, both UKIP. The latter was quickly vandalised and taken down.

 

[Dogsauce]

Local councillors used to earn regard for being hard-working or for campaigning on local issues, one in the village I grew up in used to be very well known, often seen out doing stuff like litter picking, and tended to pick up a lot of votes from people who wouldn't usually vote Labour. The 'party machine' was always distant.

I think with the loss of community, particularly in urban areas where people come and go more frequently due to shorthold tenancies, the loss of 'homes for life' council housing and people moving about more for work and schools this is probably becoming less important. I'm still in quite a settled (urban) area and know all three local councillors (who've all been in the same seat for a long time - very safe Labour area), but that feels like an exception, and it'll be increasingly common for people to vote along 'party lines' with a nationally set message.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Labour going a bit bonkers with mini billboards in Tottenham

 

[chilango]

tut tut.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Apparently the Lib Dems think that a leaflet loudly proclaiming that only the 'lib dems or labour can win here' would in some way make me want to vote Lib Dem.

I reckon that's a serious mistake, I'd not realised how close Labour had come last time, or how far behind the tories were.

Still trying to decide between Alliance for Green Socialism, Greens or Labour.

There was an interesting analysis in the guardian about how much they lie about 'x can't win here'. I don't have the url to hand but it was published earlier this week.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Labour going a bit bonkers with mini billboards in Tottenham

I thought they'd spelled 'Haringey' wrong but it turns out there's a bit of Haringey called 'Harringay'. London is stupid.

 

[chilango]

Focus finally delivered here

You know the old stories from Belfast of the the army's impending arrival onto a street being heralded by the mass clattering of bin lids?

There's now a 21st century version.

The Lib Dems impending departure from a street being heralded by the mass clattering of recycling bin lids as Focus is put away...

 

[8115]

I've now seen 2 Conservative plaques in my city. This is unprecedented. My dad reckons they are making a push in case the lib dems get annihilated. I am nonetheless concerned.

 

[8115]

He also got a conservative campaign leaflet delivered. I picked it up and gave it to him with the obligatory punchline, "in case you run out of toilet paper".

 

[butchersapron]

I've now seen 2 Conservative plaques in my city. This is unprecedented. My dad reckons they are making a push in case the lib dems get annihilated. I am nonetheless concerned.

That's an odd tactic.

 

[8115]

That's an odd tactic.

You think so? For Europeans? Also Lib Dems are first party here (local and Europeans). So if they get a massive drop in numbers, Labour and Conservative are fighting it out for the votes. So maybe, if lib dems don't vote at all rather than switch vote (any switched votes would probably go to Labour based on Lib Dem behaviour in this parliament), worth Conservatives having a push.

 

[butchersapron]

You think so? For Europeans? Also Lib Dems are first party here (local and Europeans). So if they get a massive drop in numbers, Labour and Conservative are fighting it out for the votes. So maybe, if lib dems don't vote at all rather than switch vote (any switched votes would probably go to Labour based on Lib Dem behaviour in this parliament), worth Conservatives having a push.

I meant conservative use of plaques. Maybe you meant something other than 'plaques'?

 

[8115]

I meant conservative use of plaques. Maybe you meant something other than 'plaques'?

Yeah, I couldn't remember what those stand up boards, like Estate Agent signs, are called. Not plaques, obviously.

 

[butchersapron]

Ah - placards.

 

[weltweit]

I don't know about window posters, my street is empty of them afaict but I did get my first leaflet from the Labour party yesterday, something about labour being the only party to deal with the cost of living crisis, - I haven't really looked at it yet.

If any others have already been delivered then they probably looked too much like Pizza flyers and already made their way directly to the bin!

 

[UrbaneFox]

My neighbourhood is pretty much without window posters. I have modified my councilor's crap poster as it is pathetic.

He is going it alone this time, so

 

[SikhWarrioR]

Yeah, I couldn't remember what those stand up boards, like Estate Agent signs, are called. Not plaques, obviously.

I wonder what the local council planning dept jobsworths have got to say on these "Neo-Labour Party Hoardings" and their legality

 

[tony.c]

I still haven't seen a single window poster locally and only five days to go.

 

[Betsy]

I've just seen one window poster in my neighbourhood and it's for UKIP!

 

[Sue]

Leaflet from TUSC just came through the door. Tempted to vote for them for their names (Fero Firat and Diana Swingler) alone.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Plumdaff]

I have just spotted a UKIP poster in a house on the next road. Makes me irrationally angry. Weird that they're anti European when they always park up their work vans like clichéd Italians.

 

[Roadkill]

Having been house-hunting over the last couple of weeks I've been pounding the streets round where I live, and the only window posters I've noticed have been two Green Party ones. I had yet another communication from the Lib Dem councillor up for election yesterday, this one addressed to me. It's line is basically, 'Ignore the national picture and all the shitty things we've done: unless you vote me in you'll end up with yet another Labour councillor.' It reeks of desperation, and tbh I actually feel a bit sorry for her as she's not a bad councillor, and not an unpleasant individual. But she's a Lib Dem and, as I pointed out in the letter I wrote to her yesterday and then thought better of, it's naive to pretend you can just ignore the national picture, and there is no way I can bring myself to vote for a member of a party that's connived in screwing over this and other northern cities to protect the Tories' electoral heartlands.

Kipper billboards are conspicuous in east Hull, I noticed when I had to go over there yesterday, and, unlike round here, they're not being defaced.