Tubby Isaacs wrote:Hi Tizme.
We've not done enough to get your vote, that's down to us, no complaints at all. If we didn't want that to happen, we should have supported a voting system where preferences can be expressed (as for the Mayor of London).
There'll be quite a few less committed Greens though who'll be voting on the basis of something less specific (every party has voters like that). I was thinking of them really.
Interestingly in Scotland, if you compare support in Westminster elections with Holyrood regions, lots of Greens seem to be voting SNP in WM. If the same level of tactical voting could happen in England, it would be very handy.
Evening,
I'm back from the hustings. As I believe I mentioned the other day, I've been to almost all of them locally. Part of my role is to assess the audience reaction, plus where Aidan is/was strong/weak. And also to talk to people afterwards. At last night's hustings he had an absolute blinder of an evening. I wanted to kiss him! He got more applause than anyone because his answers were superb. Afterwards, we had a few people that came up and said they had been so inspired by what he said, they were now re thinking and may well vote for him. Not only that, people I know to be Labour party members/supporters told me they agreed with what Aidan was saying more than they agreed with Matt [the Labour candidate]. One of the people who said that to me is a Labour candidate in Watford in the local elections!
Tonight's audience wasn't quite as pro as last nights but even so, Aidan got a fair amount of applause. Again, after the event I had Labour party people telling me they agreed with him more than Matt. In addition, one of the Labour councillors who was also their candidate in the Mayoral election last year, came up to Aidan, introduced himself and told him he agreed with every word Aidan had said.
So yes Tubby you're right Labour haven't offered us enough. But more than that here in Watford at least, we are offering what Labour supporters actually want.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.