Three million and counting

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Sunday, 24 May 2009, 15:26

The HOPE not hate campaign has just passed another milestone in what already has been the largest anti-fascist campaign to date. With the printing of our final week leaflet we have now passed the three million mark for leaflets and newspapers produced for this campaign. Our actual figure stands at 3,122,000.

And there’s more to come. We are looking at producing several targeted eve of poll leaflets which should push our final total higher. And then there is the eight-page HOPE not hate supplement which will go inside the Daily Mirror in the final week.

As I arrive in Liverpool for the next stage of our bus tour, I’ve just had a call from Matthew as he was waiting for a train back to London. He’s told me that Newcastle was a great success, with dozens of trade unionists handing out thousands of leaflets and hundreds of HOPE not hate balloons. Most encouragingly they were met with a great reception from local people.

I’ve also had a call from Paul in Yorkshire. It was Bradford’s turn to have its Day of Action and 80 people turned up, delivering about 45,000 leaflets. In addition, another 40,000 leaflets were taken away to be delivered during the week.

My final phonecall was from Jason Hunter, from Burnley. He has already delivered 801 newspapers today and was about to go out again this afternoon. The Huntometer now stands at 5,002 – so that’s £50 I owe the campaign so far.