Yes to Fairer Votes: The North-East experience

Over on Political Postcards, you can read the first in a series of four posts on how the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign is going in the North-East. The first post looks at the tactics that both sides are deploying to sway voters. Here’s an excerpt:

The Yes campaign are holding firm to their strategy. Strong messages about reform, greater choice and making politicians work harder seem to resonate with wavering voters.

They use the campaign principles from the Obama campaign of ‘Respect, Empower, Include’. Perhaps a bit too sickly sweet for a more cynical British audience but as Obama proved they’re useful principles on which to build a strong supportive culture within a campaign.

We are also promised a video and interview with the regional organiser of the campaign, so do look out for that, too. You can read the post in full here.

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2 Comments

  • Poppie's mum 11th Feb '11 - 9:49am

    Most people I know are more interested in the sort of electoral reform that would mean the legal necessity for the electorate to be able to vote on a coalition’s policies after they’ve been in for a year.

    Or to be able to indicate when they vote which parties they would want to be in coalition in the case of a hung parliament.

    AV is neither here nor there compared with the negative effects of a party prepared to do anything to gain from inclusion in a coalition.

  • gramsci's eyes 11th Feb '11 - 12:01pm

    Lovely

    On the other side a pic of Clegg or Cable (aka Sid James) should be enough.

    Disgust is probably the most hard wired of our basic emotions.

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