So it's not March

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 10:29

Ros and I outside No 10 during the 2008 HOPE not hate tour

Yesterday passed off without Gordon Brown rushing to the Palace so there will be no March election. That’s certainly good news from our perspective. Our emergency election plans have been neatly folded up and put back on the shelf and it’s back to the main May warbook.

Yesterday also saw our campaign in Stoke-on-Trent move forward. Sarah, our new worker there, has been building on the success of Saturday’s hugely successful Day of Action. She has had meetings with political parties and trade unions and last night attended a meeting of the local anti-BNP group NorSCARF, with which we want to work closely. Almost 10,000 newspapers were put out on Saturday so Sarah is now drawing up plans to get the remaining 20,000 out before the next edition is produced at the end of this month.

We were also joined yesterday by Ros Wynne-Jones, who has come on board full-time until the election. Ros is our link with the Daily Mirror and she is working on our newspapers and other specials that we are co-producing.

Bit by bit the pieces of the jigsaw are falling into place. Our online telephone canvassing operation began yesterday, with hundreds of calls already made, we are working on the finishing touches to our direct mail campaign and we are just about to take on a couple more interns. The fact that Brown didn’t go to the Palace was a huge relief but whenever the election is called we will be ready.