Wednesday 22 December 2021

North Shropshire Labour - Lest we forget

As we bask in the warm glow of the success of the North Shropshire by-election, let us not forget the Labour attempt to stop us winning (and to help the tory). It seemed to be mostly the local party (Starmer stayed away) but do they have control of the national facebook account?

There seemed to be some sort of informal pact in place:

Lib Dems and Labour should only target seats they can win, says Ed Davey

but this seems to break down as we approached the final 10 days as Labour put out a ridiculous "internal poll" which showed us on 11%!

LabourList: Tory lead in North Shropshire narrowed to seven points, internal polling suggests

They were now running a campaign, here is a wraparound on the local paper:



Then emails asking for help to Labour activists went out and phone banks were set up telling people we were in third.

Here is the facebook ad the main Labour account was running:



Amzingly this matched the message the Tories were putting out. Can't think why!



And here is one of the leaflets they were putting out saying not to believe our "fibs":




Then there was the shadow cabinet support:


Wes Streeting MP


 

Preet Kaur Gill MP

 


 

(Someone thought it might just be someone from her office but she confirmed it was her)

And visits from MPs Angela Raynor, Preet Kaur Gill and Lucy Powell.

An honourable mention for the Greens:



It's important to remember that a lot of Labour (& Green) voters themselves ignored this and made up their mind to vote tactically for which I am very grateful but we shouldn't forget that not everyone in the party was on board and what they put out and said about us!


Tiverton update, they seem to be doing better this time but still:


https://twitter.com/BenPBradshaw/status/1535661152591613953





Wednesday 17 February 2021

Post-brexit snark

Now the deed has been done, some of this snark will still be relevant but here's an updtae for the new situation (NB: Use with care, only for hard brexiters, we welcome the ordinary person who voted brexit who are now realising the consequences)






















Yeah but we've stopped EU citizens' freedom of movement!





At least we've cut red tape!