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Post by BossMan on Nov 15, 2016 19:45:31 GMT
Have you ever worked in election campaigns abroad?
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Nov 15, 2016 19:45:59 GMT
Does Yorkshire count as abroad?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 15, 2016 21:33:56 GMT
I haven't but I still have a T-shirt from the Federation de jeunesse socialiste de Liege I picked up on my year abroad.
I did have to tell them I wasn't a leftie. But then they are the youth wing of the PS Belge, who aren't really convincing socialists themselves.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Nov 15, 2016 21:35:01 GMT
I haven't but I still have a T-shirt from the Federation de jeunesse socialiste de Liege I picked up on my year abroad. I did have to tell them I wasn't a leftie. But then they are the youth wing of the PS Belge, who aren't really convincing socialists themselves. 99 Red Walloons? |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 15, 2016 21:37:43 GMT
I haven't but I still have a T-shirt from the Federation de jeunesse socialiste de Liege I picked up on my year abroad. I did have to tell them I wasn't a leftie. But then they are the youth wing of the PS Belge, who aren't really convincing socialists themselves. 99 Red Walloons? very very super scary. |
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Post by uhurasmazda on Nov 16, 2016 4:14:48 GMT
I've campaigned in both the UK and NZ, but I don't know whether it counts as 'abroad' if you live there.  |
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Post by carlton43 on Nov 16, 2016 13:46:30 GMT
I've been in other countries while election campaigns were underway, but I've never taken part in a campaign. I think that it's wrong in principle to interfere in another nation's politics. My experiences were with friends and really assisting them because they were near neighbours or because I was staying in their house. And a campaign is always fun as an insider. Foreign help always attracts attention and peps up morale a bit. Lots of Brits campaign in American elections and write about it back here. I imagine quite a few also help in India, Australia and NZ, possibly also Canada and Pakistan? |
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Post by lennon on Nov 16, 2016 13:55:11 GMT
I've not done yet, but it would be fascinating to do so. Depending on timings and what is happening here I might try and do a couple of days campaigning in Amsterdam in March for the Pirates and (as much as helping them) pick up some contacts and ideas for what works in Pirate campaign.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Nov 16, 2016 15:10:14 GMT
When I was living in Hong Kong in 1992/3 I spent a hour handing out voter registration forms outside the local post office.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 15:21:07 GMT
Tighnabruich
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Post by carlton43 on Nov 16, 2016 15:29:18 GMT
I know it. End of the World but not 'abroad'. The silence and sense of place is amazing on a still day. |
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Post by carlton43 on Nov 16, 2016 15:47:18 GMT
We had a party town HQ in our street in Italy and there is more general fun with elections there. Still old party members who hang out the red duster with hammer and sickle every morning through one window, but fewer every year.
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Post by Foggy on Nov 16, 2016 17:53:45 GMT
I was in Gatineau on the day of a provincial by-election in 2008, in Verona the year before when there appeared to be municipal elections on in the Veneto, in Ljubljana on the day of the Slovenian general election in 2011, in Dresden at the same time as the first round of the mayoral election last year and in Berlin (including the Reichstag building itself) during the federal campaign of 2013.
I missed out on being in Spain during a national election when the expected March 2012 vote was brought forward to November 2011. I don't think I'd have tried to help any party campaign in any of these cases, however.
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Post by right on Nov 16, 2016 17:56:40 GMT
I was involved in the campaign to re-elect Bush I and some hopeless Republican fight in a safe Democrat seat.
Not sure I'd be as comfortable doing that now what with them being abroad and all.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 16, 2016 18:43:06 GMT
I went to a National Party rally in Cape Town and somehow ended up joining the Constantia branch (although I was actually staying in Sea Point) but I wasn't active and in any case there was no election taking place (though arguably the rally, which was addressed by F W De Klerk, was part of the long-campaign for the election of 1994)
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 17, 2016 0:10:55 GMT
I went to a National Party rally in Cape Town and somehow ended up joining the Constantia branch (although I was actually staying in Sea Point) but I wasn't active and in any case there was no election taking place (though arguably the rally, which was addressed by F W De Klerk, was part of the long-campaign for the election of 1994) That beats me joshing with some Belgian leftists by a country mile. Sounds great! |
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