Greater London elections
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Message from Election Department:
The Party will be contesting two seats for the Greater London Assembly in the elections on 3 May — Lambeth & Southwark and Merton & Wandsworth. We have already started distributing leaflets in Wandsworth.
As part of the campaign the Election Dept will be reviving our election blog at http://spgb.blogspot.com/ where members and others will be able to follow the campaign.
Socialist Party Head Office wrote:Message from Election Department:The Party will be contesting two seats for the Greater London Assembly in the elections on 3 May — Lambeth & Southwark and Merton & Wandsworth. We have already started distributing leaflets in Wandsworth.As part of the campaign the Election Dept will be reviving our election blog at http://spgb.blogspot.com/ where members and others will be able to follow the campaign.Not only follow the campaign but hopefully participate in………….
jondwhite wrote:Any chance of a RSS feed so I can see when the blog is updated?Daily commentary from the Election Department here:-http://spgb.blogspot.com/
gnome wrote:Daily commentary from the Election Department here:-http://spgb.blogspot.com/Our election address can be found here:-http://spgb.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-election-address.html
Progress report here:-http://spgb.blogspot.com/And don’t forget we are having a literature stall outside our premises in Clapham High Street from 11.00am on three consecutive Saturdays leading up to the Greater London Assembly elections which we are contesting and standing two candidates. http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/literature-stall-outside-head-office
North London branch is taking part in the Greater London Assembly election campaign.These are the activities it has planned so far:-Saturday 14 April 12 noon – leaflet distribution at Clapham Junction (meet outside the train station)Saturday 21 April 12 noon – leaflet distribution at Tooting Broadway (meet at the tube station – Northern line)In addition, members and supporters are encouraged to contact Head Office to obtain leaflets to deliver door to door across South London.If you can’t make it ‘onto the streets’ then feel free to help in other ways: write to local papers, write to HO with words of encouragement, and send money
Anything you can do to help.We look forward to seeing you.http://spgb.blogspot.com/http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/north-london-branchDon’t forget the ongoing leaflet distribution; members and supporters are encouraged to contact Head Office to obtain leaflets to deliver door-to-door across South London. 0207 6223811.And next Saturday (April 14th) comrades will be having a literature table outside HO from 11.00am whilst others are meeting at Clapham Junction station at 12.00noon for door-to-door leaflet distribution. Supporters are welcome to assist. http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/literature-stall-outside-head-officehttp://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/greater-london-assembly-leaflet-distribution-0 Election blog here:-http://spgb.blogspot.com/RSS feed here:-http://spgb.blogspot.com/rss.xml
So far we’ve been invited to 3 hustings meetings, all in Lambeth & Southwark, i.e all for DannyWednesday 18 April 6.45 for 7pm Herne Hill Baptist Church Half Moon Lane SE24 9HU Organised by Herne Hill Forum Details of meeting: http://www.hernehillforum.org.ukTuesday 24 April 7.15 for 7.30pm Waterloo Action Centre 14 Baylis Rd SE1 7AA Organised by Lambeth Cyclists. Details: http://www.lambethcyclists.org.uk/2012/04/lambeth-and-southwark-cyclists-to.htmlWednesday 25 April 7pm Parish of All Souls West Dulwich Lovelace Rd SE21 8JY Organised by Norwood Forum Details (not yet up): http://www.norwoodforum.org
We have now received an invitation (belatedly, it seems) to a hustings in Putney (in the constituency of Merton & Wandsworth, so for Bill) on Thursday 19 April at 7.30 in The Brewer Building, St Mary’s Church, Putney Bridge, Putney High St, SW15 1SN.Details on the website of the Putney Society here.
We were only told about this last night (by the Tory candidate!). Danny can’t go but if anyone is around Brixton at 2pm today (April 19th) could they go and leaflet the meeting (and protest about Danny not being invited). These pensioners gave Danny the best reception at their general election meeting in the town hall! http://www.sda.dircon.co.uk/Election%20Question%20Time.pdfVenue: The Lambeth Accord (Conference Room), 336 Brixton Road, London SW9 7AANearest tube: Brixton on the Victoria LIne
From Vaux Populi :- http://spgb.blogspot.co.uk/Yesterday, Saturday (April 21st), we had stalls in both Lambeth & Southwark (Clapham High St) and Merton & Wandsworth (Tooting Broadway). In Tooting we met a member of the British Organisation of People of Indian Sub-Continental Origin who told us of a hustings in Tooting next Saturday at 4.00pm. This coincides with our own election meeting at the same time on the same day but this shouldn’t present a problem. Meanwhile we are trying to get an official invitation to a hustings in Wimbledon next Tuesday (April 24th) to which our candidate has not been invited. It’s at St Marks Church, St Marks Place, SW19 7ND starting at 7.30pm, organised by the Wimbledon Civic Forum and Transition Town Wimbledon (and Tooting) Even if we don’t get an invitation we will still be there to demand to be heard. We’re not going to let them (or anyone else) get away with just inviting the candidates from “the main parties”.http://projectdirt.com/events/community-hustings-for-gla-election-candidates
The organisers of the “hustings” tomorrow night in Wimbledon have refused to invite us and two other candidates in Merton & Wandsworth to speak from the platform.An exchange of emails appears on the election blog:- http://spgb.blogspot.co.uk/However, don’t forget the other “hustings” tomorrow (April 24th) in Waterloo:-http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/greater-london-assembly-hustings-meeting-0
Here’s the details of the “hustings” on Saturday 28 April from 4pm to 7pm in Tooting: NAPS Samaj Hall, 26B Tooting High Street, London SW17 0RG (next to NatWest Bank) The meeting has been organised by the British Organisation of People of Indian Sub-continental Origin (BOPIO) and is aimed mainly, but not exclusively, at people with connections with this part of the world. Unfortunately our candidate for Merton & Wandsworth is not available and it also coincides with our own election meeting at 52 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UN at exactly the same time. The organisers have, however, agreed to accept him to be represented by someone else. So we will be there. Unfortunately too, the only Indian language that we have leaflets in is Bengali (Bangla) while most of those present are likely to come from South India and Northern Sri Lanka. But we’ll take some along anyway in case there’s anyone from Bangladesh or West Bengal there. They have also invited the candidates for Mayor but it’s doubtful that Ken or Boris will turn up, but who knows?
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