Something quite exciting

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 09:13

There is something quite exciting seeing a 40ft lorry arriving with almost a million newspapers on board. Almost 30 pallets stacked high with our 2009 HOPE not hate newspapers arrived at our warehouse yesterday morning. Of course the hard task of unloading the lorry and then reloading the papers into transit vans is less appealing but I enjoyed that moment when the driver peeled back the tarpaulin all the same.

Now the hard work really begins as vans arrive, load up and depart for different parts of the North West.

Down in the Midlands Matthew took charge of 180,000 newspapers and a third delivery was made to a London warehouse.

So far we have printed 2,500,000 leaflets and newspapers but already we are thinking that we will need more. Only yesterday our office sent out over 100,000 leaflets to students ahead of this weekend's Student Sunday activities. A meeting in Hackney last night got commitments to deliver 50,000 newspapers across the borough and it seems that Walthamstow will take 20,000 to 30,000 leaflets.

The task now is to get the literature delivered to ordinary voters but I'm confident that it can be done.