Richmond Park is on course to be the biggest Lib Dem by-election campaign ever. Last weekend the Campaign Team put a call-out for 1000 volunteers, and very nearly reached that target. This weekend the team is planning to deliver an attractive magazine across the whole constituency, as well as make serious inroads into the canvassing. There are always admin jobs to do in the Kingston office as well.
People have been turning up from all over the country. Yesterday, in the space of a few minutes, I chatted with a couple of new members who had come down from Macclesfield for three days to help, as well as volunteers from Newcastle and Hull.
Mark Williams and John Pugh out on the streets of Richmond.
These volunteers have just arrived this morning from Glasgow!
Team London 2016 reunited.
In a garage not far away.
Back in the office, the promised food offerings are going upmarket …
… which may have attracted our persistent visitor in the Kingston office.
Politics is powered by elastic bands.
Meanwhile down in Southampton they are on the phone. Just don’t ask about the duck.
And finally …. the caption competition.
If you feel inspired to join us just turn up at either of the two HQs between 9am and 9pm, any day.
110 Canbury Park Road, London, KT2 6JZ (closest station, Kingston)
65a Sheen Lane, Mortlake, SW14 8AD (closest station, Mortlake)
* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.
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“…and we call this one Brexit. Doesn’t know where it’s going, and comes with a huge bill.”
“the one fallen off its perch? That’s Remain, it’s just resting – really”
“When I said ‘Bollocks’ it was meant as a political comment; not an invitation to attack!”
“Fool: Winter’s not gone yet if the wild geese fly that way”
King Lear: Act 2, Scene 3, line 46.
I am pleased that the Moderator has accepted that, in this instance, “F**l” is a character, not an epithet.
“Look! A refugee from Hawaii!”
“They’re not turkeys, but are they voting for Christmas?”
“and this fowl gaggle are insisting on more landing space”
I don’t have a great caption, but do wish Caroline Pidgeon had been helping Sarah on this occasion!
Re In a garage not far away: ‘Drilling for Gold’
As the son of a billionaire grocer fights for his political career…
“What Zac fails to understand is that geese swim in water, they don’t swim in jam.”
Will Sarah cook Zac’s goose today?
Or is that the goose which laid the Goldsmith’s egg?
Lib Dem candidate argues that we need a system whereby migrating birds can be counted when they enter and leave the UK.
Yet another entry in the LibDem photographic subgenre ‘People Pointing At Things’
“I’ll put you down as a floating voter then?”
@ Matt ( Bristol).
I really enjoy your contributions. They really make me think.
I found myself agreeing with something that you raised in a different post that I would never have thought that I would agree with.
I’m the ‘red’ goose waddling of to the left, my friend’s the ‘blue’ goose off the other way – and if you can point to yourself?
Thanks Jayne — I suspect I have too many opinions…