A quieter day

posted by: Nick L | on: Monday, 7 April 2008, 18:50

Today has been much quieter which is no bad thing given the hectic weekend I have had delivering anti-BNP newspapers. I seem to have spent much of the day going through council websites looking at where the BNP is standing and then reassessing our list of target wards. Most of the places the BNP is standing are as expected but there are one or two surprises. This, coupled with looking at the other candidates – or not as the case is sometimes – is making us review our campaign priorities.

My other preoccupation has been the Searchlight/Daily Mirror Hope not Hate bus tour, the start of which is now only 12 days away! Can’t believe it has come up on us so quickly. Ros (my colleague at the Mirror) had been confidently predicting that we had so much more time to organise things this year as opposed to the frantic last minute rush last time. Yeah, right. It is once again a frantic last minute rush and I feel the blood pressure rising!

The weekend was good, albeit a little tiring. Saturday was Haringey whilst Sunday was Highbury in Islington. Despite the appalling weather a small team of us braved the snow and delivered almost 2,000 newspapers.

Matthew was not impressed to read my earlier blog that he and I had promised to cover Haringey. I told him that now the promise had been made it had to be met. Obviously the onus will fall on him as I’ll be off on the bus in 12 days time. I spoke to him this morning and suggested another leafleting session today but he told me that he was off to the zoo. All I can say is that he is going to be pretty busy in the second half of April.

Last night I popped into the Hope not Hate gig in East London. By all accounts it was a successful night with 100 people there and a tidy sum raised for the campaign. I didn’t stay long as I was far too tired and had to get back to sign off a couple more leaflets before they were sent to the printers this morning. I did manage to catch up with some old friends from Essex and we arranged a Day of Action in Thurrock for Saturday 19 April. So, if there are any of you from Essex or outer East London who want to get involved then drop me a line at nick@stopthebnp.org.uk