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Is the show over for Labour in Chatham & Aylesford?
These are the results of our phone canvass of postal voters in one of Labour's better polling stations in Chatham and Aylesford. To be clear, we are calling all postal voters, not just pledged...
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Big Brother is watching you
One of our younger (and fitter) candidates Daniel Markham in East Malling always sends me and the Association Chairman a digital print of his daily "run" when he also delivers his latest leaflet. It...
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A Blemish
What a wonderful, considerate and delightful email to receive on a wet and windy Sunday morning! Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) would be proud.
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The Widdy Has Landed
Team Crouch, with added Widdecombe, was out at Chatham Railway Station this morning, assaulting the eardrums of sleepy commuters. The Great Lady, never a shrinking violet, positioned herself directly...
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Lies, damn lies and statistics
I have always poured over statistics, in fact understanding numbers is vital to any Campaign Manager / Agent role, just as knowing where your party's strengths and weaknesses are is important for...
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We must address confusion over postal votes.
This post is not meant to be a criticism of any of our local councils or their 'election teams' but rather a general complaint about the system and its lack of clarity. This week my office has been...
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Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells
There was a degree of tutting over the breakfast table when two vulgar purple UKIP posters appeared side by side in one of Tunbridge Wells' nicest residential areas yesterday. So outraged was one...
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Crouch's Tigers!
Joyce Gadd and Tracey Crouch with the first of the 38,000 pledge letters they packed last FridayI want to pay tribute and record my thanks to Chatham and Aylesford Association President Joyce Gadd, and...
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May I take a small sample ?
Today we ran training for Counting Agents with particular emphasis on ballot box sampling. There was a time when Conservative Counting Agents would automatically sample each ballot box, but this has...
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Landing on the doormats today!
Across West Kent today over 80,000 Conservative supporters will be receiving a personalised pledge letter delivered in a hand addressed envelope. A great effort from our volunteers and parliamentary...
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Ringing for Kelly
The first two teams manning the phones at West Kent Towers today - between them making 3,000 phone calls into Rochester and Strood to help Get Out The Vote for Kelly Tolhurst. Real movement back to...
View ArticleWhy my life-long Christian Socialist partner is voting Conservative tomorrow.
Tomorrow, Thursday 7 May, my partner for the last 13 years will do something for the first time. A lifelong Christian Socialist and former member of the Labour Party, Steve will be voting Conservative....
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Standing Proud for Conservative Votes
Highlight (or perhaps the low point) of all the counts I attended was finding myself in a heated debate with a Presiding Officer over a spoilt ballot paper.A voter had drawn seven penises alongside the...
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Well done to the Tally Team
I blogged earlier in the week about the training we provided for our Counting Agents, with particular emphasis on sampling. We even want as far as running a fake "count" with a real ballot box filled...
View ArticleWe won the war, now let's win the peace
In the euphoria following the unexpected scale of our victory we must not avoid addressing the very real problems we have with our ground troops. We would be failing in our duty if we missed this once...
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West Kent THANK YOU cards about to land in the doormats
I have always been a strong advocate of delivering a THANK YOU leaflet following the election, regardless of the outcome. Having bombarded residents with paper asking for their vote, the least we can...
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