…or had you’d missed that? I want to share the Brent East campaign experience from the point of view of the electorate. And I want to distribute information about the candidates and the parties standing in Brent East to my neighbours in this constituency. So until the 6th of May, when the hangover is gone and the lost sleep caught up on, I’ll put most of my posting efforts into ‘Brent East Campaigning’...
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On Thursday I bumped into Yasmin Qureshi, the Labour candidate for Brent East, on Salusbury Road just outside the friendly and well stocked Queen’s Park Books (yes, I do work there, how did you guess?). She was out on the campaign trail, meeting and greeting, probably kissing babies, seeking places to display her posters. Yasmin was accompanied by the Queen’s Park ward local Councillor Neil Nerva. I’ve met Neil Nerva before....
I’ve started to blog the Brent East constituency election campaign. I’ll be sharing all the paper propaganda distributed by candidates over the coming four weeks. Wide open for all the see. Informed choice facilitated. I’ve met two of the candidates already, well three, as I’ve met Sarah Teather too. More to share on that score soon.
Sarah has been unanimously re-selected by Brent Liberal Democrats to fight the next General Election. You can read the news story on this over at the BELD website. Sarah said she would be campaigning for a renewed mandate from the electorate of Brent East on local issues such as civic neglect, neighbourhood policing, housing problems and post office closures. Her efforts would continue in the House of Commons tackling ID cards, detention without trail and student tuition fees....