For those not aware the Green Un was a Saturday night Chronicle and Echo supplement in addition to the 6 daily copies (2 editions) covering all the local Sports Results, printed at 5.15pm and available to buy about 6pm.
And to think they call a single one week production printed a 120 miles away progress.
Anyway I hope you enjoy and please forward on to all interested friends particularly those in Castle Ward.
Additional delivery volunteers are always very welcome
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Green Council take a stand on housing….
ReplyDeleteNo tenant to be evicted over bedroom tax Brighton & Hove City Council has become the first local authority in the country to take such a stance.
http://24dash.com/news/housing/2013-03-15-Council-no-tenant-to-be-evicted-over-bedroom-tax
tony.
ReplyDeletei may be wrong but i think you arewrong about the green/un being the sports paper of the chron of the past. it was the PINK?UN.
i maybe wrong there may be two, but i can only find one in the chrons archives.
if you are wrong its not a very good start for your new party.
check the chron archives, i may be wrong iam not very good at this.
if i am wrong please accept my apology.
Anon,
ReplyDeleteYou are both right and wrong !
The Chron did in later days have a "Pink' Un but originally it was called the "Green U'n" and printed on green paper
Don't you guys learn anything from your mistakes? People just dont read this much detail on a leaflet. They didn't when you stood last time (and lost) and won't this time. It's the three second rule. Come on, inspire us.
ReplyDeleteLooking4inspirationtoVote, I am sorry but you miss the point, only 30% of the electorate do vote, and they are always happy to be given information. There is a "Sun" type readership, but they will be happy with the simpler election address, I give my electorate both and I win more than I lose.
ReplyDeleteI don't do dumbed down politics, I leave that to the other three.
Ah but you won so many more under the Labour banner (short and snappy leaflets) than you have done with the rather self obessive literary literature. I recall you put out a rather long-ish one last time and it didnt encourage the masses to come out ....
ReplyDeleteand I put out a lengthy leaflet in the election before that and won!
ReplyDeleteIn fact I used to put out lengthy reports and newsletters when I was in Parliament.
I was the first MP to publish his expenses in my (Lengthy) annual report.
Horses for courses I guess, but worry not the next leaflet is more up your street.
I'd be a bit careful about boasting about what your photocopier produced when you were an MP and what it didn't .....
ReplyDeleteFair point re the election before therefore lets see what happens at the next one to see if the great literate classes of Castle Ward take up your offer of representation.
On a more policy interested note and recognising that your national poltical days are over and influence to effect those issues is limited I am fascinated by those criticising Blair and Brown for the new Labour years are the same people campaigning today on Government welfare cuts that effect the poor so much ....
... and yet under new Labout child poverty shot down.
What are your thoughts?
That's a big accusation! My photocopier when an MP only ever produced material related to my role! Any political material was produced elsewhere and paid for from party funds!
ReplyDeleteOn your "Policy" point I agree that the Labour Party in its time did a lot to eleviate child poverty but they would never listen to those of us who pleaded with them to protect the principle of universal benefit, championing the welfare state as the worlds biggest national insurance based protection scheme.
Instead we focused more on means testing, more on individual benefits for specific purpose and allowed the current situation whereby the Tory's can divide Britain into supporters or opponents of the Welfare state based on a have or have not doctrine.
The Labour Party today in opposition are I am afraid to say a disgrace to their forefathers, sitting on their hands and abstaining whilst the government force through rules to allow them to coherce people to stack shelfs for Poundland or lose their benefit! 52 MP's including some of my friends and ex ministers under Blair and Brown and Caroline Lucas from the Green Party voted against this wicked scheme which even the courts said was unlawful. The rest of the Parliamentary Labour PArty should either hang their heads in shame or join the Tory Party they so love to support!