Our Euroelection campaign
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Round-up of Hustings and Street Stalls
Hustings
Monday, 13 May – Banbury Town Hall, 1 Bridge St, Banbury (Oxon) OX16 5QB – 7pm-9pm
Wednesday, 15 May – Chesham Youth Centre, Old Drill Hall, Bellingdon Road, Chesham (Bucks) HP5 2HA – 6.30pm-9.00pm
Thursday, 16 May – Woolf Lecture Theatre, University of Kent, Giles Lane, Canterbury (Kent) CT2 7BQ – 6.30pm-8.00pm
Friday, 17 May – Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DH – 7pm-9pm
Tuesday, 21 May – Brockenhurst Village Hall, Highwood Road, off Sway Rd, Lyndhurst (Hants) SO42 7RY – 7pm-8.30pm
Street Stalls
Wednesday, 15 May – Carfax, Oxford OH1 1HB (junction of St Aldate’s (south), Cornmarket Street (north), Queen Street (west) and the High Street (east)) from 3pm
Saturday, 18 May – The Parade, Canterbury CT1 2JL (a pedestrianised area close to the cathedral) from 12noon
Saturday, 18 May – Oracle Shopping Centre, Reading (Berks) RG1 2AG (outside the Broad Street entrance) from 2pm
Six members and sympathisers were out yesterday for our stall at the Levellers Day event in Burford. As this is an olde worlde village of antique shops and tea rooms we didn’t see it as a priority to leaflet locally. However, plans were laid to leaflet Chipping Norton and Woodstock as more suitable places in Oxfordshire, outside Oxford itself, to leaflet.
In Burford we concentrated exclusively on letting the leftwingers who had come for the Levellers event know that we standing in the area. This was the first occasion that the manifesto itself (that arrived in Head Office on Thursday) was handed out. Pamphlet sales too including the new ones on Pankhurst, Luxemburg and Martov.
Something here on another of our opponents, the Independent, Michael Turberville. He is standing as a “pro-EU independent” and stood for parliament in 2010 and 2017 in Reading East and also for the local council. He should know about us as, in the 2014 Euroelections, Reading East was one of the Westminster constituencies where we had Royal Mail deliver our manifesto.
Someone direct me to a list of what parties are standing what candidates in what constituencies throughout the UK. Thanks.
As arranged, the election communications were delivered to the 3 Royal Mail postal centres concerned this morning. Delivery to households in the six constituencies will start from tomorrow. Only hiccup was that the printers delivered 500 short for Canterbury and 200 short for Dover. So that’s still 314,300 of the intended 315,000.
The areas where the election communications will be delivered are the Westminster constituencies of:
Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, Maidstone & the Weald, Brighton Pavilion, and Oxford East.
If you live in any of these areas look out for them and let us know that you got one.
This morning I did a (very) short piece to camera for the BBC, which will be shown at the weekend on Sunday Politics South. The audio will also be used on Radio Solent (and possibly Radio Oxford).
Over coming days, I’ll also be doing some leafletting in Portsmouth around the area I live in (Fratton).
Anton Pruden, another of our candidates, was interviewed, also briefly, this afternoon in Brighton for BBC East TV. East, you ask? It’s because, for the BBC, Milton Keynes is in their East region. It will be broadcast next Sunday after the Andrew Marr show on “Look East. Politics on Sunday”. Unless you are in that region (East Anglia, Cambridge, etc) I don’t think you will be able to see it (you’ll get some other local politics programme) but you can, apparently, via the internet. Don’t ask me how, perhaps someone here can explain what you have to do.
If I am at home that weekend (Bedfordshire) I’ll certainly watch it. If only it came under South East rather than East, I’d have been able to cast a vote from there!
Labour election correspondence through the door. Slogan “labour will bring our country together” or something along those lines. Half the front page is occupied by a slick photographed portrait of Corbyn. So much for being the anti spin/pr candidate…
Our what Jeremy?
Corbyn’s Labour appears as little more than a personality cult
It’s the same with the Greens. All their leaflets feature Caroline Lucas prominently. Another cult of the personality but then people can list less Green Party politicians than they can famous Belgians.
” . . . but then people can list less Green Party politicians than they can famous Belgians.”
If that isn’t a giveaway for someone who doesn’t watch football, I don’t know what is. Shame on you, sir.
The hustings in Banbury yesterday evening went well. There were maybe around a hundred people in the town hall, along with candidates from nearly all the parties. We each had five minutes for an opening statement, and then there was over an hour of questions from the audience, with a minute for each of us to give a reply. As with other hustings, equal time was afforded to each of the candidates. I put some emphasis on how we stand for a future society without borders or nations, and therefore without all the divisions between people which they encourage. I brought along a variety of our leaflets, and by the end of the evening quite a few had been picked up.
A transcript of my opening statement is here: http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/05/from-euro-election-candidate.html
There’s a newspaper report here, but I don’t get much of a mention! https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/politics/poems-and-rodents-feature-in-banbury-eu-hustings-1-8926044
And if you fancy watching the whole event (although the sound quality is poor), it can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/Banbury4Europe/videos/291864245087303
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