Comments on: Election leaflets – a review

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 May 2005 13:32:35 +0000

Sorry, it wasn’t meant to say that you hadn’t had that policy before Jamie Oliver came along (in fact I’d be surprised if you didn’t), but it was definitely not an issue in the public mind until his TV series had aired; you do have him to thank for making it an election issue.

By: Cara Gillespie

Cara Gillespie — Thu, 05 May 2005 13:15:56 +0000

Hello there,
Its election day, I’ve been up since 6, back home intending to sleep and instead, erm, drinking coffee and googling my own name- vanity’s a terrible thing eh? Andd no, I’m not a 100m hurdles champion from Minnesota.
Anyhow, many thanks for the positive comments on my leaflet, all credits for design go to oor ain comms officer Ian Ruffell.
One wee thing though- Greens have been campaigning on food issues since long before Jamie Oliver decided to salve his Sainsbury’s sponsored conscience and bang on about school meals. Lothian Green MSP Mark Ballard first raised this in the Scottish Parliament back in December 2003… can we instead describe Mr. Oliver as reacting to the Green effect?
Support the Green Food Revolution campaign- it reaches the parts TV chefs never will.
Right, really must sleep now :)

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:47:45 +0000

yeah i’ve learnt a hell of a lot about devolution in Scotland just from my first year at AS level. It’s nice to see a country retaining their identity, but having respect for others at the same time.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:10:13 +0000

“Fearty”, I believe from what I’ve picked up, means “cowardly”, though perhaps in this sense it can mean “dithering” or “equivocating”. I just thought it was nice to see a bit of dialect and cultural mix in the campaign.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:21:29 +0000

Hello there, i’ve been a spectator on your site for a while now, so i think i owe you a comment.

I was quite curious to what the term ‘fearty parties’ meant? Being south of the river, i haven’t a clue.

Now the time to contribute something.
I live in Orpington,*collective groan*, and as a marginal area we’ve had Charles Kennedy visit 3 times in the space of a couple of weeks. The yellow ‘Chris Maine’ diamond – shaped banners are becoming bigger everytime i see them, they’re rather intimidating for pieces of cardboard.

This effort is all very well, but the parties may grab back some of the public’s respect if they cared to put just as much effort in to campaigning in areas that aren’t in dire need of attention. I think that’s a fair enough deal, it may also improve the apathy in the turn out rates.

Also, if you want a winner for asthetic appeal, try the old socialist site – http://www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk/. It’s pure genius!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:39:02 +0000

Equally they could have palmed off Lazarowicz or Strang instead, or even shunted Darling into the now-vacant Linlithgow. Maybe. I’m not au fait with the intricacies of Scottish Labour’s internal politics.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:30:41 +0000

But North and East have incumbents, whereas they’ve palmed off the wee dear that was in Pentlands. Have realised that giving too freely of my views on Mr D would been detrimental to his good name, so must probably desist. But I’m open to offers on who should be Motorways Secretary if Ali should somehow fail to get back in.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:39:31 +0000

Yes, Edinburgh SW is pretty much the Pentlands with bits of the old Edinburgh Central and South tacked on; pretty dumb/brave to put him in a marginal when Edinburgh North or East would have been a dead cert…

By: tom

tom — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:58:50 +0000

On a tangential note: spotted, today, Brick Lane. George Galloway leading a go-slow convoy of about forty cars, all continuously sounding their horns as loud as they could, and most shouting through loudhailers and PA systems.

Because, you know, nothing says “Respect” like blocking traffic and deafening everybody within a 500 yard radius.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:22:28 +0000

But whose vote will now be shifted by a leaflet coming through their door? Rather like posters in windows, I think your comment is all too accurate – it is basically a way of assessing how much the parties love /you/ – but if you actually want to know what they think, well, all media sources are just bursting to tell you (to be precise, to tell you how they interpret what the parties think).

Plus, presumably you suffer from being a seemingly impregnable Labour seat (you are, aren’t you?). If you were somewhere borderline, they might make more bother with you. For example, isn’t Edinburgh South West surprisingly similar to Edinburgh Pentlands? Which once was (reasonably) solid Tory (sniffy Sir Malcolm Rifkind), and now has the near-unmissable chance of being represented by eyebrow dying simpleton Alastair Darling? I bet they’re getting mail by the sackload.