Over the last few days this blog has, unofficially, become a bit of a campaign diary rather than a blog to expose the disaster of our membership of the European Union. So, we have until Thursday and as all my efforts, after a day doing my work in the office, are for my local election campaign as a UKIP candidate in the Paddock Ward in Walsall, I may as well keep reprting my campaigning efforts.
First and foremost, one of the problems with this election campaign has been the weather, which to use a common expression regarding English weather, is ‘bloody awful’. Obviously this has been the same for all of us campaigning as we are dodging the wind and the rain trying to ensure our election leaflets are not blown away or soaked. The only candidate it does not seem to have been a problem for is the Liberal Democrat candidate as I have not seen a single leaflet from him, unlike the Labour and Conservative candidates who have been busy.
By last weekend I have covered the ward in leaflets and am now in the process of putting out a second very basic leaflet. Last night I went out, after the rain had stopped, with a bunch of 300 leaflets freshly bashed out on my own copier. The campaigning started well as I went door to door on the Gillity Village delivering. I met one chap and had a chat with him; he was positive and said he would vote for me. So with a smile on my face I set off again and delivering my leaflets. Sadly, the next person I encountered wiped the smile off my face, “Your all the same” she responded after I introduced myself – that’s the first time I have heard that in this election, it usually gets thrown at us a few times by polling day.
I tried to explain why I was not the same, but despite the lady being polite and promising to read my bashed out photo-copied election address, she wasn’t really interested.
Never mind I thought, you can’t win them all, and continued on my merry way pounding the streets of Gillity Village. As I walked up one drive, as I was about halfway up the door began to slowly open and an elderly lady peered out looking a little puzzled. Despite the old girls age she had obviously made an effort, she had her lippy on and her hair was done, she looked quite smart. I flashed my best smile and said: “Hello, I’m Derek your UKIP candidate in the local elections”. “Oh, that’s a shame” came the reply. This was a new one to me, in all the elections I have stood in over the years, I can’t say I have encountered that one. I don’t know who was the most confused, the old girl who was obviously not quite the full ticket, or me not knowing how to respond to that one.
Come the early hours of Friday morning, then we will know what’s a shame or not, it will be a shame if the people stick like voting for donkeys with the same clapped out old three parties. Let’s hope some common sense prevails and they realise we are not all the same – some of us are politicall different.
First and foremost, one of the problems with this election campaign has been the weather, which to use a common expression regarding English weather, is ‘bloody awful’. Obviously this has been the same for all of us campaigning as we are dodging the wind and the rain trying to ensure our election leaflets are not blown away or soaked. The only candidate it does not seem to have been a problem for is the Liberal Democrat candidate as I have not seen a single leaflet from him, unlike the Labour and Conservative candidates who have been busy.
By last weekend I have covered the ward in leaflets and am now in the process of putting out a second very basic leaflet. Last night I went out, after the rain had stopped, with a bunch of 300 leaflets freshly bashed out on my own copier. The campaigning started well as I went door to door on the Gillity Village delivering. I met one chap and had a chat with him; he was positive and said he would vote for me. So with a smile on my face I set off again and delivering my leaflets. Sadly, the next person I encountered wiped the smile off my face, “Your all the same” she responded after I introduced myself – that’s the first time I have heard that in this election, it usually gets thrown at us a few times by polling day.
I tried to explain why I was not the same, but despite the lady being polite and promising to read my bashed out photo-copied election address, she wasn’t really interested.
Never mind I thought, you can’t win them all, and continued on my merry way pounding the streets of Gillity Village. As I walked up one drive, as I was about halfway up the door began to slowly open and an elderly lady peered out looking a little puzzled. Despite the old girls age she had obviously made an effort, she had her lippy on and her hair was done, she looked quite smart. I flashed my best smile and said: “Hello, I’m Derek your UKIP candidate in the local elections”. “Oh, that’s a shame” came the reply. This was a new one to me, in all the elections I have stood in over the years, I can’t say I have encountered that one. I don’t know who was the most confused, the old girl who was obviously not quite the full ticket, or me not knowing how to respond to that one.
Come the early hours of Friday morning, then we will know what’s a shame or not, it will be a shame if the people stick like voting for donkeys with the same clapped out old three parties. Let’s hope some common sense prevails and they realise we are not all the same – some of us are politicall different.
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