Dear All
Last week’s Brexit Stall (see the report here!) went really well in Hampstead so we are out again this weekend – in one of our favourite areas – Kilburn.
Did you ever think we would still be fighting for Brexit nearly 3 years after the Referendum? Yet here we are… But never being ones to shirk when our country needs us, we are back out doing our duty!
Your country needs you and we need you!
Date:
Saturday 26th January at 11am
Location:
Our usual spot just outside Kilburn Square Market on Kilburn High Road, NW6 6PP
Nearest stations:
Kilburn Park – Bakerloo Line (come out and turn left then left onto the High Road)
Kilburn High Road – Overground – turn right out of the station and we are on the opposite side of the road
Brondesbury Overground – short bus ride down the High Road
Kilburn tube on the Jubilee Line and take a short bus ride down, we will be on the right hand side of the road
Kilburn High Road is on the Edgware Road so there is a huge choice of buses
Kilburn is always very busy so please try to come along. We will have a table, leaflets, badges, and our Union Jacks etc for you. We will stay as long as the weather allows!
Look forward to seeing you – please call me if you need to or to let me know you are coming – or do just turn up!
Let’s make sure 2019 really is the year we Brexit!
Thank you –
Janice
We have Harrow and now Barnet branch coming out with us tomorrow – all welcome! We will supply leaflets etc
Good luck…but every branch should be out there…getting the UKIP message across and gaining members
Too right. And a candidate in every local council election ward -they should be working the streets now. We MUST have someone to VOTE for. This is getting on for being as quiet as the Bolton period.
Ben, Realistically that is never going to occur. It hasn’t done in the past and won’t now. The party just doesn’t have sufficient candidates coming forward to do this. There are in excess of 45 wards in my local constituency here in Kent, and we have only four candidates standing including myself, although that might increase to six, but absolutely nowhere near all wards Even if we did have sufficient candidates, we don’t have anything like the number of activists that are required to run a half decent campaign, and who are willing to get out there delivering leaflets and knock on doors etc. Winning elections is a numbers game, and you need a hell of a lot to get it done. The candidate himself/herself might fight a great campaign on the street and at the doorstep, but without the considerable back up that you need to man all polling stations around the clock and having sufficient volunteers able to do knocking up etc, one doesn’t stand a hope in hell. Getting the vote out on the day is when elections are won or lost. That is why the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats are more successful than UKIP. Unfortunately there are many members in UKIP who still think that the delivery of a leaflet is all that needs to be done to win an election. Most leaflets are placed within the recycling bin before being read, and the most important part of electioneering is canvassing. Are you standing for election Ben?
My employment is politically sensitive. People need to be able to vote Ukip even if a paper candidate. i am beginning to think all these new members totals for ukip are wind and p**s
Not true. Its the postal votes when elections are lost and won.
Correct. I would imagine though that the turnout in the elections will be incredibly low anyway… Possibly sub-20% as voters have become aware that their votes mean nothing (Brexit) and that councils are only there to cane motorists (a main factor in the demise of high streets ) and to avoid collecting rubbish or even clean the streets.
When councillors are elected with less than a hundred votes – which happens- it makes the whole thing a nonsense.
Only general elections matter, but Colin’s argument applies there too. UKIP ( or any Brexit party ) can only hope to fight perhaps 10 seats , to win – if lucky- 2.
YOU CAN BE SURE that TPTB are only concerned with keeping the EU MEPs seats if/when Art 50 is moved as its about the £’s they rake in, and nothing else. Expect lots of requests for money and help then, although the MEPs themselves have been been proven less than useless and utterly invisible.
Have you considered getting help from London region, not that far from you and there are no local elections in London. In my area I have always noticed how good the LibDems are at bussing their activists around to where they are needed, they are often as poorly resourced as we are at a constituency level but seem better at organising regionally.
Correct…and it would be stealing a march on Farage….there are the local elections in May…the revolution starts