Leaflets

On this mornings electoral communication from the Labour Party, Dawn Butler highlights housing, in particular the investment in Stonebridge and St. Raphael’s Estate where monstrous concrete high rises are being destroyed, replaced with low-density and low-rise housing. Regeneration of Trellick Tower? Only that is not Stonebridge. It’s Trellick Tower, 3miles down the road in Ladbroke Grove….. trellick tower The stock photo comes from PhotoEverywhere....

Torys care for mapesbury! Is the exclamation mark is necessary? Well, I’m as surprised as they are, so I guess so! On the back, Brent Conservatives ask Mapesbury residents how they would vote IF there was a general election in the next few months…… Someone ought to let Sachin Rajput know that he’s on the list for Thursday. Picked up on Mora Road on Monday. Uploaded to TheStraightChoice.

“Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it’s unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside.” Wilson and Kelling, 1982. A building like this? The ex-Unisys building on Brentfield has been empty for well over a decade. In 1997 the owners were granted planning consent to convert the office blocks to a 330-bedroom hotel, add a new penthouse storey on front block facing North Circular Road, a new single-deck car park and new boundary wall....

Is Barry Gardiner standing as an independent? You’d think he doesn’t want to be associated with Labour from the look of his campaign materials. See the full leaflet at The Straight Choice.

The Straight Choice election leaflet project is an archive of election leaflets distributed throughout the campaign. This is a helpful thing to be doing as ….. Promises that candidates make in their leaflets can be compared to what they promise to do elsewhere. In the future we can also compare the voting record of MPs with what they promised on the campaign trail. It helps catch parties or candidates who are breaking electoral law - 2 parties have been reported to the authorities based on leaflets uploaded to TheStraightChoice....