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#GetInvolved2016 with Caroline Pidgeon

By Claire Eadington | Mon 11th January 2016 - 4:08 pm

Arriving at Lib Dem HQ for the Patchwork Foundation’s #GetInvolved2016 campaigning session for Caroline Pidgeon, it was difficult to say who was bravest. Was it the young people who had signed up for a Wednesday of practical campaign training, many of whom would be heading out, leaflet in hand, to face the doorstep for the first time; or was it Caroline and Lauren Pemberton-Nelson, the Lib Dem candidate for the Faraday ward by-election on 21 January? For us Patchworkers one of the biggest boosts at #GetInvolved2016 events is the trust placed in us by the people we are campaigning …

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