16 April 2005
No Lib/Dem or Tory Rubbish
People have started hooting horns to wish us luck. News of the campaign in East London has reached the voter in Cambridge and is really helping us out. Those who were part of the Socialist Alliance in 2001 are saying that this campaign is gaining much more momentum. Many People who we are meeting on the doorstep know who we are even the few last Labour devotees seem glad we are standing.
The feeling is strong amongst many voters that the Labour MP has seriously let them down on a range of issues other than the war. One woman told me that her husband has spent nine years trying to claim asylum, causing a lot of stress and cost to his health. Anne Campbell had told them they had no chance of a claim and did not give them any help. However she had claimed at a refugee support group meeting that she was working hard on the case. So many people in the constituency are doing this sort of work on borrowed time and out of the goodness of their hearts. She has angered me so much because she claimed in a press release to the local paper that taking up constituents' cases is her strong point!
The Lib Dem candidate e-mailed me, saying he had a couple of quibblesÂ?. It was very funny. We have lumped them in with New Labour over PFI and ASBOs. He carefully explained how they didn't "shamelessly" support these initiatives. He wittered something about good and bad PFI and preffering ABC's. Basically that they were shamelessly sitting on the fence on both issues. I told him so but he didn't get back to me!
Some witty Labour supporter has adapted the no hawkers sign for the purpose of the election. They are now probably laughing on the other side of their New Labour face.
The feeling is strong amongst many voters that the Labour MP has seriously let them down on a range of issues other than the war. One woman told me that her husband has spent nine years trying to claim asylum, causing a lot of stress and cost to his health. Anne Campbell had told them they had no chance of a claim and did not give them any help. However she had claimed at a refugee support group meeting that she was working hard on the case. So many people in the constituency are doing this sort of work on borrowed time and out of the goodness of their hearts. She has angered me so much because she claimed in a press release to the local paper that taking up constituents' cases is her strong point!
The Lib Dem candidate e-mailed me, saying he had a couple of quibblesÂ?. It was very funny. We have lumped them in with New Labour over PFI and ASBOs. He carefully explained how they didn't "shamelessly" support these initiatives. He wittered something about good and bad PFI and preffering ABC's. Basically that they were shamelessly sitting on the fence on both issues. I told him so but he didn't get back to me!
Some witty Labour supporter has adapted the no hawkers sign for the purpose of the election. They are now probably laughing on the other side of their New Labour face.
