douglas denny

NO! ...to about 6 or 7% (minimum) of the vote in Bognor. If we can raise that nearer 10% we shall be doing well. It will increase from last time.

At least we are not grizzling through our teeth like you Niall.
Are you on the road - going out delivering leaflets? canvassing? giving speeches? or just sitting on your bum wrinting negative whinging noises?

Bognor is good UKIP territory; many older people, retired and aware of the iniquity of the EU. A lot of progressive intelligent younger people who can see for themselves all the EU immigrants which have poured into the area taking jobs and prospects from them.

We are on the road ....... Per ardua ad astra !

DED.
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Niall Warry

I've been there done that and got the T-shirt for getting out there and distribuing leaflets 98% of which go straight in the bin. I realised a long time ago that to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result was not very sensible. UKIP needs to think outside the box to help get the UK out the EU. The pity is the UKIP heirarchy are too busy with their noses in the EU trough to think beyond their next expenses claim.

UglyKidInParker

Good news?
My painful wart fell off.

douglas denny

Hopefully with streamed video available. I pressed for that at NEC.
Its the way of the future. People like short interesting film clips to view rather than just read stuff ........
Moving pictures always are forcefully attractive.

DED.
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douglas denny

Like I surmised ... just on your bum making negative noises..........

The leafletting (pamphletting) and canvassing phase of politics has been going on for centuries: it is the standard method of getting your message out. Even today with instant TV media being the main moving force in politics, there is still a place for the 'old' tried and tested methods.

If it was no use then the other parties would cease to do it. Yet they are still out there Niall - leafletting/canvassing just as hard as ever before !
It might not have the same effect as it did in say the 1930s, or 1950s even, when the main method of communication was the newspaper and people used to actually read things - nevertheless it is still a potent way to contact the public with your message.

There is no substitute either for the actual face of the candidate at the doorstep asking for a supporting vote; if they like you and have half a mind in liking your party's policies that will clinch the vote for you, whereas if they do not see you face to face they usually vote as they always have before - for someone else.

DED
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Raymond Finch

The door to door is one of my favourite bits of being involved. It is nice to be given the opportunity of giving our people an alternative.
I find it great fun. Even when people have those long gravel drives ;-)

Bellatrix

Mr previous post has been deleted and I offer my unreserved apologies for any offence I may have caused to Peter Cole by stating that he had been in contact with Sunday Times journalist Mr.Daniel Foggo.

I did not intend to cause him offence with my comment on this forum which has now been removed. At no stage did I wish to denigrate Mr. Cole's reputation, or harm his career or wellbeing.

The comment was made by me because of information told to me by Mr Peter Reeve, the Eastern Counties organiser for the UK Independence Party.

Some months ago, I was on the telephone to him when he told me he had been speaking to Mr Cole discussing the bus, owned by the Independence and Democracy Group. Mr Reeve said to me that Mr Cole had told Mr Reeve at if anyone moved the bus then he would firstly call the police and secondly call Sunday Times journalist Mr Daniel Foggo.

It was relayed to me in such a manner that Mr Cole was boasting about his contact with Mr Foggo as if it was something he had done previously.

This information was also told to my then colleague, Clive Page, and the party chairman, Dr John Whittaker.

It therefore appeared to me as though there was nothing contentious in my comments regarding Mr Cole because I had been informed that he had made such statements openly by a party official.

However, Mr Cole is adamant that he has not been in contact with Mr Foggo, and so I am happy to withdraw such remarks.

Bob FM

That's rather a strange apology, it's like that classic court room question, 'have you stopped beating your wife', yes means you did, no means, you haven't stopped. A no win situation. You still imply Cole had previous contact with Foggo.

Geoffrey Collier

'Have you stopped beating your wife', is a question of little consequence unless it is stated what you have stopped beating her at; it could be draughts, chess, snakes and ladders, or a host of other activities. It would be the duty of the defence lawyer, to provide the most favourable possible attribution of meaning for his client, but the onus of proof, would still rest with the prosecution, to prove that the accused previously possessed a talent, greater than your wife, in a particular activity.

Bob FM

I assume the use of YOUR, instead HIS, was a key board error. Not meant to imply anything personal.