Been a very busy first weekend. Deliveries out in a number of wards on Saturday and finishing up on Sunday before we start expenses on the Monday. Had lunch out with team on Saturday. The Royal wedding made campaigning somewhat low key and really only 'delivery' authoirised by Conservative Central Office.
Had a sackful of Lib Dem lies in a leaflet they decided to issue in Berrylands/Alexandra ward. I have sent a copy off to Charles Kennedy just to get him to confirm whether it is the same clean campaigning he was talking about on TV this morning. We will decide what to do about it next week but I am reluctant to go negative by spilling the beans on the great Davey betrayal of the Post Offices. Do not believe in negative campaigning myself but when your opponent resorts to blatant lies about his opponent rather than fighting the election on policy you wonder what will be next. His chief compliant was I apparently did not turn up to a meeting with a junior Post Office Ltd Manager. This was a meeting that was never going to change the views of the Post Office and was merely a single part in a pretty rigged consultation process and a meeting which I had not said I would be attending anyway. My ward colleague did attend it as our representative. The reason I was not there was because I was attending to my very ill 2 year old daughter; the health of my family being very important to me. Actually one resident thought it made the Lib Dems look pretty stupid if they thought it was a hanging offence.
The Postmaster near me was pretty fed up that when this Post Offices closure in Berrylands was announced and the Lib Dem MP did not bother to ask him what he thought about it before leaping into the press.
Things are good at the moment. Next leaflet starts on Monday and a week ahead of stuffing, delivering, printing, canvassing and public meetings.
3 comments:
I do not need to attend dinners to support the most needy. I do it every day in my job working with the poorest young people in the UK.
Dear Andrew,
Yes I get paid for doing my job as do MP's and many others who choose to give something back to their community. I get paid considerably less then when I was in the commercial sector. I am not rich but I am prepared to make that sacrifice. Before you criticise me I suggest you think about reducing your income by 30% and giving it to charity; perhaps the Mayor's appeal?
Having dinners is to be applauded and supporting the Mayor is a good way of doing it. Ed Naylor has been a superb Mayor and I know he has had a good year. However, supporting the Mayor does not happen at just one event a year.
In any case I hear we must be careful of gifts given by our former MP. The last one he gave was for dinner at the House of Commons and I believe the winner has not heard from him since.
IF the Conservatives have squandered anything then that is a matter for there members. In the same way that were I not to be a succesful MP then the voters of Kingston could eject me at the next election. It is called democracy.
I am calling a halt to this irrelevant debate about local clubs and associations. Any more will be deleted.
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