Reply To: Our Euroelection campaign
Done all mine too. Drove a couple of miles to cross the border into Surrey, to Long Ditton which is in Elmbridge where the MP is slimy Tory Brexiteer (despite the area voting Remain) and would-be Prime Minister, Dominic Raab. I too saw some UKIP leaflets and took one for my collection. I bought a couple of local papers to see what they had to say about the election. The Surrey Comet, which used to be alright but is now a complete rag, had nothing. The Guildford-based Surrey Advertiser had this to say about us:
“Socialist Party of Great Britain pushing for ‘Lexit’ – a “pro-worker EU exit” – its lead candidate in the South East is Mandy Bruce.”
They are mixing us with someone else of course, but lazy journalism as they were sent a link to our manifesto. (And Mandy is only first on our list as it’s in alphabetical order and her surname begins with a B). Still, they will have to publish a correction, giving us a second bite of the cherry.
Actually, we had got our revenge in first as when we are in Southampton we deliberately leafletted a ward where SPEW, under its registered name of “Socialist Alternative”, had stood a candidate in the local elections earlier this month. If they want confusion they can have it.