An amazing response

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Friday, 6 August 2010, 14:13

Our campaign against the EDL march in Bradford got a real boost this morning when we received the first batch of sign-ups from the Telegraph and Argus, including 800 coupons that had been filled in and posted back to the newspaper by readers.

This in incredible and the fact that 800 people put a stamp on an envelope and posted it back shows the strength of feeling in the city against the racist march. Hundreds more came in the form of the newspaper's online petition and another 280 came through the HOPE not hate's own post bag.

More mosques are collecting names today and our activists will be out again on Saturday.

I'm not sure what our current total is but we have easily collected over 10,000 names. Given that all these people come from within Bradford this represents 5% of all adults in the city. That's 10,000 successful conversations we've had with real people.

This really is becoming a campaign that's winning the hearts and minds of local people.