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How do we suppose Clegg's agent is going to stay within the campaign spending limit?
 
brogdale said:
Went on a bit of an urban ramble today...about 6/7 miles through 2 parliamentary constituencies, (one of which is a marginal; Cronx Centrale), and saw 1 election window poster on the whole route. One; and we're reasonably observant types!

This has the appearance of a sea-change in people's attitudes towards and engagement with party politics. I suppose the fact that folk either feel totally disconnected from the process, or are ashamed to publicly display affinity with such loathsome psychopaths, is to be celebrated!:D
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i'm just back from a trip to devon via Wiltshire/Somerset and there were a shit tonne of Lib Dem and Tory placards. maybe three Labour posters in Bristol (Clifton) and a few Greens in Glastonbury.
 
Lib dems round here are properly going for the Tory vote.

Which suits me fine, as I'm on a mission with the Greens to properly go for the Lib Dem (and Labour) former left of centre voters, and both of them think we're going to be pulling most votes from the other party, which is a little odd, but they don't really know what's in the process of hitting them.

I got made campaign manager for Leeds NW Greens a month or so back, and am in the process of pulling together a pretty strong local campaign, with 40 people out campaigning on Saturday, and a 30,000 run anti-austerity A3 leaflet in the process of being distributed, on top of 24k regional green newspapers, 10k student leaflets already gone out, 3000 A3 posters either out or being made into poster boards, and a load of local newsletters for the 2 key council wars. And 2 key wards are being canvassed most days.

I went around half of headingley earlier and didn't see a single poster for any party other than greens, Otley's apparently not far off as well (which was solidly Lib Dem last time), and we're now filling in the gap in between.

We're aiming to make this into a 4 way split, then who knows, but we'll probably get 10-15% just from the student vote. That's running on a solidly anti-austerity ticket against a Lib Dem who got nearly a 10k majority last time.

Will be quite amusing if we win given that we've had no central party support, and aren't an official target to win seat, just trying to work effectively with the 200 or so new members we have in the constituency. It's an outside chance, but if the lib dem vote collapses as much as it seems that it might, then it could happen. It's going to be had work reaching 32,000 houses with that much campaign material, but it looks like we might pull it together.

Lib Dem and Labour are both throwing huge resources at the campaign, and have more posterboards on the main roads, but away from them they've nothing up, whereas we have a good smattering of posters and poster boards all over the place. Tories seem to have given up on it entirely (probably to keep the lib dem in power), so there should be no chance of us splitting the vote and letting the tories in, which keeps things simpler.

Watch this space. I suspect we'll at least be one of the highest supported Green areas.
 
free spirit said:
Lib dems round here are properly going for the Tory vote.

Which suits me fine, as I'm on a mission with the Greens to properly go for the Lib Dem (and Labour) former left of centre voters, and both of them think we're going to be pulling most votes from the other party, which is a little odd, but they don't really know what's in the process of hitting them.

I got made campaign manager for Leeds NW Greens a month or so back, and am in the process of pulling together a pretty strong local campaign, with 40 people out campaigning on Saturday, and a 30,000 run anti-austerity A3 leaflet in the process of being distributed, on top of 24k regional green newspapers, 10k student leaflets already gone out, 3000 A3 posters either out or being made into poster boards, and a load of local newsletters for the 2 key council wars. And 2 key wards are being canvassed most days.

I went around half of headingley earlier and didn't see a single poster for any party other than greens, Otley's apparently not far off as well (which was solidly Lib Dem last time), and we're now filling in the gap in between.

We're aiming to make this into a 4 way split, then who knows, but we'll probably get 10-15% just from the student vote. That's running on a solidly anti-austerity ticket against a Lib Dem who got nearly a 10k majority last time.

Will be quite amusing if we win given that we've had no central party support, and aren't an official target to win seat, just trying to work effectively with the 200 or so new members we have in the constituency. It's an outside chance, but if the lib dem vote collapses as much as it seems that it might, then it could happen. It's going to be had work reaching 32,000 houses with that much campaign material, but it looks like we might pull it together.

Lib Dem and Labour are both throwing huge resources at the campaign, and have more posterboards on the main roads, but away from them they've nothing up, whereas we have a good smattering of posters and poster boards all over the place. Tories seem to have given up on it entirely (probably to keep the lib dem in power), so there should be no chance of us splitting the vote and letting the tories in, which keeps things simpler.

Watch this space. I suspect we'll at least be one of the highest supported Green areas.
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But a big green vote will keep greg mulholland in place and help return a tory government. Sorry FS - im trying to persuade everyone i know in leeds NW who is thinking of voting green to vote labour.
 
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Kaka Tim said:
But a big green vote will keep greg mulholland in place and help return a tory government. Sorry FS - im trying to persuade every i know in leeds NW who is thinking of voting green to vote labour.
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I did consider moving in with one of my Hyde Park friends so I could register in Leeds NW and help evict the god botherer lib dem, but then Labour aren't really worth it.

I'll possibly vote green in Leeds West if the candidate's any good, unless anyone else worthwhile is standing (pretty sure Spunking Cock are running here). Not voting for Reeves!
 
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Dogsauce said:
I did consider moving in with one of my Hyde Park friends so I could register in Leeds NW and help evict the god botherer lib dem, but then Labour aren't really worth it.

I'll possibly vote green in Leeds West if the candidate's any good, unless anyone else worthwhile is standing (pretty sure Spunking Cock are running here). Not voting for Reeves!
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Yeah im in leeds west - so TUSC will be getting my vote (unless any leeds NW green voters want to swap and vote labour in leeds NW).

Mulholland will keep his seat unless the greens switch to labour.
 
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