Sunday, September 13, 2009

Plaistow South Sunday Canvass (& BNP Love Story?)

The summer break is long over and it is time to be back “on the knocker”. Calling on local people in Newham to identify any local issues that they want resolving and their voting intentions.

Yesterday there was a large team out in Canning Town South and this afternoon I helped out in Plaistow South (West Ham CLP). Local Councillor Graham Lane (2nd right) and Neil Wilson (4th right) each led a team.

The voter identification went very well but I was surprised that we picked up very little casework considering we had local ward councillors with us. But I then found out that the local Councillors hold a successful weekly surgery in the New Vic School which is just nearby.

Interesting story told about how one local resident use to regularly stand in elections as a candidate - year in – year out - for the BNP. Then one day when a Labour Party canvasser called he told him that he was no longer in the BNP. He admitted he had been expelled because he had married a “non white”.

omnia vincit amor

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