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I have just received a call from John Greenshields, who is working for Emily Thornberry. He has invited me to go canvassing with them on Friday, 11-1pm, at a local housing estate. Then I will be able to interview Emily and assess her as a candidate for my vote. <\/p>\n
I am feeling a little bit nervous, since aside from being a parliamentary candidate, Emily is a criminal lawyer, and I am the secret and invisible available in all colours. Which colours, she will ask, and why are they not visible? Just to make sure they knew I wasn’t going to write a lot of misquotes, I told them that I hadn’t had my Vote Labour poster yet.<\/p>\n
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John was nice on the phone, cheerful and helpful, and I noticed how he described the other parties candidates respectfully, even referring to the Conservative candidate, Melanie McLean (right) as “lovely”. The Labour movement is full of volunteers and members, he said, whereas the Liberals just ran it like a business. Liberals are paying people to erect posters on sticks at the garden gates of their supporters. I thought they were quick off the mark.<\/p>\n
I have found a website, courtesy of Probably the Best Blog in the World<\/a>, which proclaims: Blair Out, Labour In: It IS Possible.<\/a> I strongly suspect the “protest vote” socialism it purports to be is in fact a divisive right-wing scam designed to leech the Labour vote – but if you are confused by British politics, or even pissed off at anything in particular at the moment, and have a computer with sound, check out this flash movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have just received a call from John Greenshields, who is working for Emily Thornberry. He has invited me to go canvassing with them on Friday, 11-1pm, at a local housing estate. Then I will be able to interview Emily and assess her as a candidate for my vote. I am feeling a little bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.islingtongreens.org.uk\/IslingtonGreenParty-elections_files\/James.bmp\")
James Humphreys (left) is the local Green Party candidate, and they launched their manifesto today.<\/a> Green is the only vote I ever cast that wasn’t Labour, so I am interested in this party particularly. Although they won’t get more than a handful of votes in a general election, I am happy that their politics are greening the other parties, who unfailingly retort that they have ALWAYS been Green. But then, they would say that, wouldn’t they? It will have a bearing on my vote whether or not the candidates are credible in this area.<\/p>\n