Brilliant Steve.
I know from my canvassing etc just how energising it is.
What is nice is when you get the voter who says something along the lines of "UKIP are standing? About time too."
I love the thought of giving people an alternative. Give them something positive to vote for.
The trick for us is building a voter base and getting our activists regularly working the streets. Once you get over the nervousness, it becomes really quite exhilarating.
The thing is that both of these things become a habit and it will start to snowball when our people realise we are not just a one trick pony and we actually propose to do something for them on the micro level, not just the macro level which a lot of people think is presently insoluble. Once we start appearing regularly in elections we start becoming electable.Once we become electable then we start getting elected. Once we get elected, then we become a threat. Once we become a threat, we gain leverage. Once we gain leverage, we can change things.
Simple really. It is just a case of applying ourselves and working hard on the doorstep.
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