London local election campaign
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Campaigning overWe have now finished leafleting Clapham. In the end we did manage to distribute door-to-door and at our three literature stalls some 9000 of the 9500 allocated to us. The Labour Party must have spent a lot on trying to retain control of the council, with glossy leaflets, posters and personalised voting cards. We saw no leaflets from either the Liberals or the Tories. Presumably they are only running a token campaign in the three safe Labour wards we are contesting and concentrating on leafier parts where they think they can win. Surprisingly we saw no TUSC leaflets in the two of these wards they are contesting. Only a Green Party leaflet in Clapham Town ward denouncing the Labour Council for betraying residents who had moved into abandoned properties in the 1970s and refurbished them and who are now to be evicted so the council can get more money by selling the land off to property speculators. More news about Clapham after the count on Friday.LS
And all over in Islington too… So, last night four of us made it out to the Tufnell Park end of the ward, and we got rid of almost all our leaflets (a few will go out today, put probably outside the ward). It was hot work, but many hands made light work. When someone refused a leaflet, I tried to tell him we were from the campaign to re-route HS2 through their street (which would need to be demolished). After all, we have to let them learn it might be a bad idea not to read election leaflets. One man asked us if we’d seen the sign saying “No Junk Mail” we told him it was an election address, which he pompously declared he considered to be junk mail. I refrained from saying what I thought of him. We meekly collected our leaflet and went about our way. The only real difficulty of the night was my colleague, who became ill at the thought of delivering to houses with Arsenal posters in the window. Maybe when Spurs win the cup too, he’ll recover…Bill
Labour win all three seats, taking one from the Lib Dems.Riddhi Bhalla (Conservative) 320*Janet Burgess (Labour) 2,228Michael Collins (Conservative) 361Giorgia Gamba (Liberal Democrats) 297Mick Holloway (Green) 717Daniel Hudson (Green) 621Stefan Antoni Kasprzyk (Liberal Democrats) 333*Kaya Makarau Schwartz (Labour) 1938Bill Martin (The Socialist Party of GB) 90*Tim Nicholls (Labour) 1,779Jill Renwick (Green) 720Victoria Savvides (Liberal Democrats) 245Oliver Peter Jonathan (Conservative) 314
The results for the three wards we contested in Lambeth can be found here:Clapham Town: http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=112&RPID=24614579Ferndale: http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=114&RPID=24615788Larkhall: http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=118&RPID=24616396As it happens, the results in the two wards we contested both times (Ferndale and Larkhall) are almost exactly the same as last time in 2010.More later.
ALB wrote:The results for the three wards we contested in Lambeth can be found here:Clapham Town: http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=112&RPID=24614579Ferndale: http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=114&RPID=24615788Larkhall: http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=118&RPID=24616396As it happens, the results in the two wards we contested both times (Ferndale and Larkhall) are almost exactly the same as last time in 2010.More later.Pity it's very hard to identify those who have persistently voted for socialism. But if we keep at it and the persistent vote consequently increases this task will become easier.
The major parties use canvassing software, such as EARS (http://www.earsonline.co.uk/ears01.php) which is used by the Lib Dems. Something for the SPGB Election Committee?
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