Chris, a reader of this blog, writes: Hi Rob, Maybe you were there tonight. If so, I’m wasting your time. If not, highlights included: Kwasi (who, incidentally, and I appreciate this is always the luck of the draw, is the only candidate I have seen campaigning in the streets) being compared to Boris Johnson; a nice Irish chap pointing out that some Candidate for Kilburn’s Beleaguered Motorists (really?...
The candidates from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are all highlighting crime in their campaigns. But do we need ‘more police on patrol to make our area safer for all’? (Sarah Teather - Standing Up For You) Has the fear of crime ‘increased’ in Brent? (Kwasi Kwarteng - In Touch) Is ‘crime and the fear of crime and issue for every neighbourhood in London’? (Yasmin Qureshi - Mapesbury Labour News) If you’d like to see the crime statistics for Brent, the Met have great interactive map, but data looks better as text only....
I’ve been reading up on the entitlement of a prospective parliamentary candidate to the use of Royal Mail delivery services. In Brent East, a candidate is entitled to use Royal Mail to deliver 40907 items of campaign literature. What I’m not sure about is if that is in total (i.e. to all the households) or per ‘drop’. There is further information on the Roayl Mail service to candidiate here. Or you could check out the Department of Consitiutional Affairs ‘guidance for electoral administrators and information on electoral legislation’....
After yesterdays mammouth posting session I went out for a while. I hadn’t had chance to even leave the building before my mind was drawn back to this blog. More campaign materials from Sarah Teather, local Liberal Democrat. This one an official ‘Election Communication’ delivered by Royal Mail. ‘Standing Up For You’ highlights Sarah’s work during her term as MP for Brent East on local ‘quality of life’ issues and links the Lib Dem policies to local ‘real people’ through a varity of in-action photos....
Many postings to this blog today. It’s all I’ve done this morning! I’ve received a letter from Sarah Teather for her campaign to be re-elected by the people of Brent East to serve a second term. Her message: ‘I believe that people in Brent East deserve a local MP who will stand up to Tony Blair. I am proud to fight this election on my record of local action from fighting for fairer funding for our local schools to welcoming more police for Dudden Hill, Kilburn and Willesden Green....