Tag Archives: team 2015

Paddy Ashdown can’t hurt me now

By Caron Lindsay | Sat 14th March 2015 - 8:40 pm

Last night in his rally speech, Paddy Ashdown jokingly suggested that he might deliver a cruel and unusual punishment to anyone who didn’t do the 10 calls from the Team 2015 phone bank that was requested of every member over the Conference weekend.

In no way am I scared of Paddy and his humorous threats were not the main reason I headed down there this afternoon. Honest.

It was all very painless and great fun. You are greeted by cheery volunteers who sign you in and give you a mobile phone, a script and a list of calls to make. The biggest problem I had, typically for me, was that it took me ages to work out how to end the calls on the, shall we say, old fashioned models we were using. I was sitting next to Julian Huppert. He was calling voters in his Cambridge constituency. I was calling people for Stephen Williams in Bristol West. And here is the proof:

Lots of great people in the Campaign Zone at the moment including @caronmlindsay @julianhuppert @catherinemep #ldconf pic.twitter.com/QwHjwFhkxo

— Lib Dems Team 2015 (@LibDemsTeam2015) March 14, 2015

Posted in Conference | Also tagged julian huppert and stephen williams | 5 Comments

Opinion: High impact campaigning – volunteering with Team 2015

By Sarah Tindle | Tue 17th February 2015 - 1:50 pm

I’m looking forward to the election with a fair amount of optimism. My response to disappointing election results in May 2014 was to join Team 2015, which in August had just begun to mobilise Lib Dem volunteers in preparation for the General Election. At this point the Team membership’s infectious enthusiasm far outweighed its numbers. It has since grown to include volunteers from across the country, and this has shaped my belief that we have a chance to do better in the election than critics and pollsters are anticipating.