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Post by johnloony on Jun 30, 2024 20:52:14 GMT
Today I was walking around Southall for a while, looking for signs of the election campaign.
I saw several shops with posters for Jaginder Singh, one for Sangeet Kaur Bhail, and a few for Darshan Singh Azad (WPB)*. I also saw an advert board on the back of a lorry thingy for the WPB. None for any of the other parties or Independents. I was slightly surprised not to see any campaigners or canvassers swarming around. Memories came back of the big wide-open street market in South Road, which is where I met Theresa May in 2007.
I know from the experience of the 2007 by-election that the presence of lots of posters in shops doesn't necessarily mean that a candidate will get lots of votes, but it was noticeable that there were lots for one and none for three.
* The WPB has a list of reasonably normal local and domestic political issues (housing, roads, taxation and so on) and doesn't have any rant about Gaza or imperialism or genocide etc, but there is a subliminal (and fairly small) "Never Forget 1984" at the bottom of the second page, which I presume is meant to be a reference of the Golden Temple massacre in Amritsar.
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Post by norflondon on Jun 30, 2024 21:13:17 GMT
I don't believe a poster has swayed a single voter from changing their vote or a non voter being inspired to vote.
A load of nonsense, those who stick up a board or poster are v mainly about sycophants sucking up to the local party in hope of a favour, cllr opportunity etc etc
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 30, 2024 21:17:07 GMT
I don't believe a poster has swayed a single voter from changing their vote or a non voter being inspired to vote. A load of nonsense, those who stick up a board or poster are v mainly about sycophants sucking up to the local party in hope of a favour, cllr opportunity etc etc The first bit is certainly arguable
The second bit is bollocks.
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Post by johnloony on Jun 30, 2024 21:22:19 GMT
I don't believe a poster has swayed a single voter from changing their vote or a non voter being inspired to vote. A load of nonsense, those who stick up a board or poster are v mainly about sycophants sucking up to the local party in hope of a favour, cllr opportunity etc etc My theory is that they do make a marginal difference. If I am an undecided voter, wanting to vote Independent, I might decide to vote for the one who has demonstrated (a) a significant level of support among others (b) the organisational skill to get a loads of posters done and delivered, rather than the ones who are invisible. More generally, in a constituency where it is not clear whether Party B or Party C is the better able to defeat Party A, I might notice that there are many more posters for B than for C and decide to vote tactically accordingly. I have occasionally thought that if I emigrated to live in another country which uses FPTP (e.g. India), I might want to get specific local knowledge about which parties are strong locally so that it can help me to decide effectively or tactically or whatever.
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Post by norflondon on Jun 30, 2024 21:51:11 GMT
I don't believe a poster has swayed a single voter from changing their vote or a non voter being inspired to vote. A load of nonsense, those who stick up a board or poster are v mainly about sycophants sucking up to the local party in hope of a favour, cllr opportunity etc etc The first bit is certainly arguable
The second bit is bollocks.
Funny, I regard the first statement as possibly arguably bollocks but the second statement very often truthful
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Jun 30, 2024 21:56:38 GMT
The first bit is certainly arguable
The second bit is bollocks.
Funny, I regard the first statement as possibly arguably bollocks but the second statement very often truthful Anybody who sticks up a big Lib Dem orange diamond (or a fluorescent Green rectangle) in the hopes of getting "favours" from those parties is living in a fantasy world.
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Post by batman on Jul 1, 2024 1:16:56 GMT
When we won 2 seats in Mortlake in 1998, we were able to do so only because voters believed that we were in the running. A really impressive display of Labour posters was a vital component in helping to create that perception.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 1:19:03 GMT
Indeed. I only got elected to the Oxford Union as an independent by messaging around 1,000 people and converting likes on memes into first preference votes.
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Post by Sg1 on Jul 1, 2024 1:19:54 GMT
That was also my experience winning a previously Labour held ward in which we hadn't been in contention for some time. Window posters helped and were worth the time and effort.
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Post by johnloony on Jul 2, 2024 15:22:29 GMT
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Post by right on Jul 3, 2024 15:37:27 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Jul 8, 2024 22:22:48 GMT
It turns out that the candidate for whom I saw the most posters (Jaginder Singh) came 11th out of 12 candidates, with 295 votes. The other candidate for whom I only saw one poster (Sangeet Bhail) was 8th with 557.
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Post by batman on Aug 25, 2024 7:34:25 GMT
Is Deirdre Costigan the first-ever MP to have a ring through their nose?
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