Someone's Knocking At The Door...
I know it's our right to say who we are voting for and for many years you'll find people putting notices at their windows saying who they are supporting but this is the first time in my life I have seen this kind of sign at someone's home. Which I can see from my own. Discreet it is not!
UPDATE July 15, 2007:Sometime in the night someone has been busy and removed the sign so all that remains is the pole...I'm amazed that it lasted this long.
The following are not the greatest photo's in the world(taken behind double glazing and with the strongest digital zoom lens setting possible) but they show the prospective Labour Candidate canvassing and in the remainder with his Campaign Manager who until recently was a member of the cabinet in the Government.
That's Hilary Armstrong. I did not know it was them knocking at our door but from what I saw very few doors were opened and within minutes they were going back in the direction of the Town Centre and their HQ. What I did notice what looked like a load of helpers who could've been students, they did not look very old probably intending to become Parliament researchers and helpers.
Like so many MP's these days Hilary has her own website.
Here's another link from The Guardian Newspaper site.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 10:29 pm
11 Comments:
Someone's ringing the bell... :-D
Pics look okay to me, they look like a right pair of shady characters, I wouldn't have opened the door to them either. As for the sign in the garden, will it still be standing there in a few days time? In one piece? Hopefully people will see through them and their 'caring' I'll fight for your town carp.
Take care
Lxxx
Do me a favour, open the door and let 'em in...er...No! :-)
The photo's look ok if left at the size they appear on the page...not so good when enlarged(since your comment I had added a link to her official website)which I have to say gives a positive spin.
For balance I'll add a link I found on a Guardian newspaper site.
Gildy if that woman was canvassing in my street I would have been out there and asking all those questions that you always want to ask but never get the opportunity to do so. She wouldn't have to knock at my door!
Gildy
Glad to see you have some humour left :-). Still want to slap her smug face, I wonder if she'll look smug if they get beat - oh it's not her constituancy though is it.
Fingers crossed for next Thursday that it all backfires on them.
Take care
Lxxx
Mags, its time I popped over and caught up with your blog again...Lots to comment on I suspect..
Hope you are well.
She's in town quite a lot at present. The candidate we would like to vote managed to do very well in the local elections as did his fellow hopefuls and therefore it would be good to see him succeed again but the problem is away from this town, the area will I suspect stick to it's form. So our votes should not affect the outcome.
We probably should choose someone with a profile across the whole constituency but if that means choosing from the three main national political parties, its reasonable to assume two will be unsuccessful and the same party will once again win.
It is tempting to speak to someone who has been in the actual government cabinet for many years. Now, she's in a back bench capacity...and her own seat is probably safe, I doubt any answer would be worth hearing.
Anon, I have to say that this election and local politics in the past month or two has been the most interested I have been in a long time.
Any rival party or Independent/individual really does have a struggle/fight on their hands.
Is it like this everywhere across the UK or exclusive to this area?
I should add if you read the likely winner's spin and published flyers, an average voter might not see through the tricks...
One leaflet shows comparisons between the three main parties with a series of columns containing ticks and crosses.
Some are not fact ie:he has a tick against being tough on crime but a cross against his rivals.
In one column he has a tick against his own name for having attended local schools whereas his rivals did not. One has lived in the area all his life and worked locally and even set up a business so is still quite local and does it matter where you went to school?
Especially, as he left school approx 30 years ago? What matters is what you have done since.
Where are the political commentators we see and hear on radio and television so often? Surely, they should be covering this especially as it was the ex PM's constituency?
If they cover the story on the actual day or afterwards that's too late. And probably in case they are accused of affecting the outcome, the last day broadcasters can talk about it would be Wednesday. It happens on Thursday.
I would still grab her and ask, back bench or not. I like watching people squirm, especially odious little people like her!
...and that guy looks like Alastair Campbell! Go out and kick him!
Oh, it's so tempting.:-)
In one way I am disillusioned seeing all this played out so close(and how it iss probably all sown up)
In another seeing what goes on and how manipulative spin is equally an eye opener...
Gildy - did you work for the KGB in a former life, they are good surveillance pictures. We always put a vote Labour poster up in the window, nobody takes much notice round here Ruth Kelly could run naked down the High Street and nobody would know who she was this town is so blue.
I like that Paul :-)
I think depending on the area and who you are, probably a logo shown in the window is probably ok. I'd like to think its safe to show your "leanings" but putting up a pole...who knows.
You'll notice on the final blog entry for now on this story(I'll be watching how the redevelopment goes over the next few years)
If I'd had a camera ready. I probably could've taken better photo's and more of them because, it too ages to prepare the camera.
I thought they'd gone and then they came back down the other side of the road.
I suppose we should always have one ready...just in case.
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