So, did you get your Preferendum from George ‘Rainbow’ Weiss last week? You can’t have missed it: it was an A3 sheet of paper folded to A4 and covered with text. What was curious about the materials was the lack of photographs - no pic of Rainbow George, no pic of Tony Bush and George Blair.
A preferendum is an experiment in participatory democracy. The Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket party is encouraging the electorate to vote not only for their candidate but also for the policies of the party should it be elected to form a government....
The man who claimed that New Labour had ‘sexed up’ the dossier on the threat possed to the United Kingdom by Sadam Hussain’s Iraq is being quoted by Yasmin Qureshi on her most recent campaign material.
Andrew Gilligan was writing in Friday 29th Evening Standard. I picked up the most recent flyer - literally, there were some floating around the platform at Kilburn, Jubilee Line - in the early evening on Friday....
I commented that there would be more on the Labour Party Brent East News ‘Delivering For You’.
One thing I noticed was that Tony (Blair not Benn) doesn’t feature on the campaign material. There are three photos of Ken ‘Red’ Livingstone - Labours prodigal son - and a photo of Tony Benn (Old ‘Old Labour’ - sorry Tony) in that upright but slightly reclined pose that he does so well. Another Old Labour party member, Diane Abbot, is quoted in support of Yasmin....
More campaign materials from Sarah Teather.
And George ‘Rainbow’ Weiss’s Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket Preferendum.
More photo analysis of Brent East News.
And a rumor of Team:Yasmin in Queen’s Park Café this lunch time…
later…
What else is there to notice about Brent East News ‘Delivering for YOU’…
I read the whole of the Ken Livingstone interview on the London Labour Party website. Campaigning in Brent East with Yasmin Qureshi Ken said:“I am delighted that my first election visit is in my old seat of Brent East, where human rights campaigner Yasmin Qureshi is in pole position to become Britain’s first ever Asian woman.”
The ‘round robin’ makes four mentions of Yasmin’s ethnicity and gender....