More twittering
More twittering from Stoke Newington Green by-election candidate Matt Hanley (https://twitter.com/MattHanley) who helpfully tells us where on the ideological spectrum the oh-so-leftwing Hackney Greens are going vote-hunting, posting yesterday:
"Out convassing [sic] again - starting to actually almost enjoy canvassing now - had my second Tory put up a Green poster last night."
This confirms the experience of Labour canvassers that alongside those Green voters who genuinely care about the environment or think they are backing a left alternative to Labour are a substantial number who are basically just very middle class people who hate the Labour Party and think the Greens are a convenient local vehicle for giving us a kicking, and would vote Tory if they lived in Notting Hill rather than Stoke Newington.
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posted by Luke Akehurst at 9:14 am
6 Comments:
But all parties have some tactical voters. And in order for your strategy to work, Labour has to attract the votes of people whose political instincts are conservative
10:55 am, January 09, 2009
Well, I'm a Conservative, and Labour's policy of throwing a thousand years' worth of freedoms down the toilet means I'd rather shave myself with a rusty hacksaw than vote for them.
I'd bet the National Front has nothing to match Jackboot Smith!
11:52 am, January 09, 2009
What about this Hackney embarrassment though - where you are quoted?
1:12 pm, January 09, 2009
"Anyone but Labour" is hardly a new voting strategy, and will become increasingly popular as the full impact of Gordon's moronic incompetence becomes clear.
3:01 pm, January 09, 2009
So by that logic you have no interest in winning over Tory voters to Labour, because if you do that means you are like them?
What a daft argument!
9:18 pm, January 09, 2009
And what about false consciousness?
Labour voters who vote for you without understanding that they are actually voting against their own interests.
That covers about 95% of the Labour vote right now.
What on earth does a black working class individual get out of voting for you in Hackney.
He's been given the worst education, the worst housing, a lousy health service, life-long unemployment, and worst off all, you turning up on his doorstep every now and then telling him what wonderful things you're doing.
I hope you were body armour when you go knocking.
12:31 pm, January 11, 2009
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