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Young Master Smeet wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000788Unless someone else is standing in Penge, Ian is there…
This has now been amended to show that he is not actually standing. In fact, Class War are only contesting 7 seats according to this list:http://cpgb.org.uk/may2015candidates.html
There's actually a seventh event today — another hustings in Oxford:http://www.stmargaretsoxford.org/calendar/1780/election-hustings-in-the-hall-at-st-edwards-s-schoolAs our candidate there will be speaking at another meeting at the same time we'll be sending a representative as the other parties have sometimes done.We've also got invites to two hustings for students tomorrow. One in Wadham College at 5pm (in Oxford East, so Kevin will be there), the other in St Hugh's College at 7pm (in Oxford West, so Mike will be there). It's not clear if these are open to the general public but certainly are to students from other colleges.Also tomorrow the same half-page advert will be in the Morning Star as was last Friday (we got two for the price of one).
Young Master Smeet wrote:Hmm, speaking of personal styles. I just sent this reply, without mentioning that Soccer is obviously an inferorir football code. oh, the discipline of being a party candidte:You only got a question about soccer. Our Brighton candidates had one on "roller derby". If you don't know what that is (neither did I) there's an explanation here:http://brightonbrats.com/2015/04/29/ge2015/Scroll down to Brighton Kemptown to see Jacqueline's reply:
Quote:Jacqueline Shodeke, Socialist Party of Great Britain: “Hi. I’m just standing for socialism and not making promises on any subject because we’re not running the sort of campaign where parties say “Vote for us and we’ll do this or that for you”. So all I can say is that amateur sport is good, and that in a socialist society all sports will be amateur, since it will be a society without money and its corrupting influence on everything including sport.”Oxford Friends of the Earth have published on their site the answers of candidates standing in the two Oxford constituencies (but none from UKIP):http://www.foe.co.uk/groups/oxford/campaigns/General-Election-2015Note the utopian reformism of the TUSC candidate in Oxford East. It looks as if he really believes what he says (and is not just putting cynical "transitional demands" before workers), so confirming our view that if you play the reformist game you end up as one.
ALB wrote:Let's see if I have more success in uploading those we've got from Vauxhall and Oxford East.Done it but might leave it to the professionals next time:https://electionleaflets.org/leaflets/11528/
Actually, from an economic popint of view, de-nationalisation was really inter-nationalisation, i.e allowing "foreign" capital to invest in them.
jondwhite wrote:Despite claiming revolutionary credentials he's dismissed communism as crazy,Where has he done this? I read or heard him say that "sharing" was "communism" (or vice versa). A bit vague, but not saying it's crazy. Just found it. It's on page 289 of his book Revolution:
Quote:Socialism isn't a dirty word, it just means sharing; really it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.You are right, but I don't think much of the photo of the one from Brighton Kemptown. Let's see if I have more success in uploading those we've got from Vauxhall and Oxford East. Can't do the one for Swansea as the only one we have at the moment has "junk mail" scrawled across it.I see Vin (and others) can tweet these leaflets when uploaded ….
gnome wrote:More information has been added to the meetyournextmp site, including the provision of links to the party's website and Wikipedia page. Only three candidates, however, have party election addresses uploaded to their pages.Actually, only one election address is there (for Easington). The other two are CVs.We don't actually have copies of what Royal Mail delivered (or didn't) as these were sent direct to them by our printers. So we need a mimimum of two or three, one for our archives and a couple to send to universities which have collections of all election leaflets. So far, we got at Head Office, 3 from Oxford East and 1 from Vauxhall but we know that members have collected some in Islington and Swansea. So, if anyone reading this has some for these and the others can they send them on to Head Office. Thanks.
Here's the debate ion immigration on BBC Radio Oxford this morning at which Kevin Parkin took part:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02q637fKevin managed to bring out well that socialists consider themselves "citizens of the world" and not, like the other candidates, Brits wanting to control "our" borders and keep out immigrant benefit "scroungers". Bit annoying that the presenter kept on saying that "immigration" was a big issue when it's not really, only what the media are telling people to think is, so opening the way for UKIP whose representative here caught the ball and ran with it.
Here's Mike's comments on the general election manifesto of the Oxford University Students Union which asked him for them:http://ousu.org/representing-you/your-reps/sabb/LouisTrup/2015/04/27/General-Election-Manifesto-The-Socialist-Party-Response/
The BBC have sent us a clip of what was broadcast but it's complicated to get to look at. Don't know if this will get you there. DownloadFiles (5.87 MB total) Socialist Party.wmvWill be deleted on 4 May, 2015
These enquiries will come from three sources: the election communications delivered (or not delivered in some cases) by royal mail, replies to 38 Degrees emails, and from other leaflets, distributed by us.
We will be taking part in a live broadcast on BBC Radio Oxford tomorrow morning. We've been invited as we're contesting 2 of the 6 seats in Oxfordshire. Here's the details from them:
Quote:Just wanted to update you on Tuesday's Immigration debate.Here's the finalised line-up:SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN – Kevin Parkin (Oxford East)CONS – Sir Tony Baldry (former Banbury MP)LABOUR – Sam Juthani (Henley)LIB DEMS – Layla Moran (OxWAb)GREENS – Ann Duncan (Ox East)UKIP – Simon Strutt (Witney)It will be a LIVE round table debate in the studio so the only LIVE audience will be the listeners. Everybody will be in the studio so if you can please arrive at 0845am.It will run from 09:00 to 10:00 at the very latest. It will be divided into 3 or 4 sections, looking at different aspects: the impact on labour market; pressure on welfare/NHS; differences in immigration policy.The questions will be interspersed with pre-recorded clips from people we've spoken to during our Big Ballot Box Tour. There will also be some brief pre-recorded "Fact Boxes" from Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva from the Migration Observatory at The University of Oxford. You'lll also have a full interrupted minute at the end to outline you Party's policy in this area.Finally a small advisory note: we have tried to balance the contributors across the 6 Oxfordshire seats, so you be asked to speak on behalf of your party rather than on a constituency level.BBC Radio Oxford is on 95.2FM, digital radio and online.
A report of a hustings last Wednesday at which our candidate in Oxford East, Kevin Parkin spoke:https://oxfordecohustings.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/oxfrod-east-hustings-report/Plenty of photos of him but nothing about what he said:https://www.flickr.com/photos/karloxford/sets/72157651704020817/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32428291
