Showing posts with label campaigning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campaigning. Show all posts
Monday, 30 April 2018

Is getting elected and being an effective politician correlated?

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Some researchers have been looking into what people vote for in a politician and whether this gets us effective politicians. It would seem ...
Friday, 7 July 2017

The nice, pleasant, decent left is valorising violence with its silence and excuses

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I know it's not all of you but "The Left" as it likes to call itself really does have something of a problem with being extre...
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Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Why Remain lost (more evidence of bad marketing)

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**** Politico has done a long interview - really a cobbling together of three interviews - with Craig Oliver who, we're told, ran the ...
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Saturday, 8 August 2015

"The bigger the number the better" - public health campaigners' cavalier attitude to evidence

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An entirely gratuitous picture of cake I've felt for a long time that single issue campaigners of various kinds - poverty, public he...
Wednesday, 6 May 2015

All over bar the voting...thoughts on an election campaign

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A Denholme doorstep... It rained today. I mean really rained. Torrents of cold water pouring down onto the Pennine village of Denholme....
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Saturday, 25 April 2015

In praise of the (election) workers

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The last few leaflets At the start of this seemingly interminable election campaign I was delivering 'In Touch' leaflets in Den...
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Sunday, 29 March 2015

Taking us for mugs - Labour, immigration and a panic about kippers

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Seeing this delightful mug I thought back through all my years of active involvement in politics - from smuggling Monday Club Tory, ...
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Monday, 4 March 2013

The Metis project won't solve the Conservatives' campaigning problem...

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**** There's a belief that Barak Obama won two presidential elections because his team were super slick with the on-line campaigning. ...
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Thursday, 3 January 2013

Tokenism, gay marriage and the ethnic vote

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**** Mark Pritchard MP sets off to attack tokenism: Tokenism has always been politically lazy. It can also go disastrously wrong as d...
Saturday, 17 November 2012

Campaign in the North...a message for the Conservative Party

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**** We often hear from London-based commentators that the Conservative Party has a problem in the North. Look, these men say, you have no...
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

#Greenpeacefail...

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**** If, say, a lobby group for forestry interests did this there would be the most enormous outcry: The event was a hoax, and so was ...
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Councillor Ellis and the sheep...

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One of those priceless moments for which cameras were invented. Shame then that I didn't have one with me! We're putting up pos...
Saturday, 7 April 2012

Is there an election on already? Thoughts from the (sort of) campaign trail

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Spent a fair old chunk of today traipsing round Bingley Rural banging in posters - around 40 put up today in assorted strategic (and not so ...
Thursday, 29 September 2011

Councillors and blogging - for the unbeliever

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**** From my colleague, Cllr Matt Palmer: Some stats for unbelievers: Established engagement:  Households subscribing to my weekly ema...
Monday, 26 September 2011

Charity isn't independent so long as it takes the government's cash...

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**** It may be the effect of opposition but Labour folk are keen to see the "third sector" distance itself from government. Here...
Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Days Seven and Eight - white dots and chasing fairies

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  A quiet start to the week - took an evening off from the doorstep as Kathryn had driven to Milton Keynes and back therefore earning rest r...
Sunday, 10 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Day Six - well it is Bingley RURAL!

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Spent a really pleasant day exploring the rural in Bingley Rural. The picture above is the view looking back over Whiteshaw Estate towards D...
Saturday, 9 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Day Five - gardening and e-mails

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I know, it's Saturday and the sun is shining - should be out there voter bothering! But we took the day off to do so gardening (see resu...
Friday, 8 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Day Four - Denholme, the AV referendum and curry!

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Of the 40 delivery rounds in Bingley Rural, only 16 remain on my dining room floor - this is excellent. Took some down to my ward colleague,...
Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Day One - adventures in fairyland!

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On the fairy estate at Cottingley this evening – Lysander Way, Goodfellow Close, Titania Close, Oberon Way – plenty of support but more co...