Day one, only 29 to go …

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 6 April 2010, 19:08

Day one of the election campaign has been relentless. This morning, as Brown left the Palace, we launched our most ambitious action to date. On Saturday 17 April to support our days of action in our seven most at risk areas we are organising almost 35 meeting places across the country for our supporters.

By a combination of coaches, minibuses, cars and even trains, we will be helping our HOPE not hate supporters travel into our key areas.

That all seemed fine except we were still uploading the data as the email was being sent. Anyway, it all seems fine and people are signing up.

Our Barking and Dagenham event is going to be our biggest. I'd be disappointed if we didn't pass our previous best turnout of 221 for a day of action, which was in Sandwell in 2007. To help this along, this afternoon I sat down with our East London team and divided up the work we need to do to make this successful.

We've been preparing for this election for a long time but I have to admit there's a slight sense of panic that there are now only 29 days until polling. This, rather than day one of the campaign, is what is really playing on my mind this evening.