Campaigning
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The Long Campaign
Part three of John Haywood’s journey In my previous two blogs I described the build-up to the 2019 local elections, when Labour had three town councillors elected in Ringwood, and the start of the period between 2019 and 2023 when we used that platform to build a Labour presence in the New Forest. Labour local…
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You make your own luck
Part two of John Haywood’s journey Cllr John Haywood In the previous instalment of this blog, I covered the 2015-2019 period of local campaigning in Ringwood. At the 2019 local elections, due to the Tories not having enough candidates to maintain their usual near-stranglehold over Ringwood Town Council, we managed to get three town councillors…
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Campaign Days … winning town, Parish, District en route to Government
Hastings & Rye Labour Parliamentary candidate Helena Dollimore and the CLP would like to invite you to our campaign day on the 2nd of April. Hastings and Rye is a constituency with both coastal towns and rural villages, so it is a perfect stomping ground for anyone associated with LCC! It is also key to achieving a Labour…
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Supporting Coast & Country candidates for the general election to come
Whatever your local elections in May ’24, please also consider helping one or more of these excellent candidates — we are supporting them because they ‘get’ the issues facing communities of coast & country. Jess Asato, standing to win Waveney —- Phil Brickell, standing to win Bolton West —- Polly Billington, standing to win South…
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Winning in Rural Constituencies | Derbyshire Dales CLP
It can be hard to stay motivated as a Labour Party in a Conservative Parliamentary stronghold like Derbyshire Dales. We have and likely will always have, a Conservative MP, we lost the County Council to the Conservatives in 2015 and members come and go. But, the pandemic has proven how important our rural areas…
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Lessons from Waveney | Sonia Barker
In the below post, Sonia Barker – the Waveney Labour Parliamentary Candidate in 2017 and 2019 – sets out her thoughts on the last two general election campaigns and what’s needed to win in 2024. In December 2019 a Labour voter said ‘Labour will take away my Brexit if they get in!’ and as the…
