Yesterday the CF Hustings took place, after a gruelling four hour campagning session in Mark Clarke's seat of Tooting, South London.
The supporters arrived bright and early at 10.00am to help deliver leaflets and letters to the polling districts. The event was a huge sucess with over 30 people turning out to help spread the Conservative message to the people of Tooting.
At about 4pm when campaigining was over for most people we went to the pub and then went into the back room for the main event; CF Hustings! The event was like a bear pit with several members of the CF heckling nervous candidates as they delivered their make or break speeches. I thought all the candidates were credible, but I think that most people's minds were already made up before they entered the room. I know that Steven Ricketts picked up lots of votes by giving a rousing and inspirational speech about the challenges facing modern Britian or perhaps it was due to Andy Peterkin shouting, 'Vote Steve- Get Ricketts!' This made him very memorable indeed!
The supporters arrived bright and early at 10.00am to help deliver leaflets and letters to the polling districts. The event was a huge sucess with over 30 people turning out to help spread the Conservative message to the people of Tooting.
At about 4pm when campaigining was over for most people we went to the pub and then went into the back room for the main event; CF Hustings! The event was like a bear pit with several members of the CF heckling nervous candidates as they delivered their make or break speeches. I thought all the candidates were credible, but I think that most people's minds were already made up before they entered the room. I know that Steven Ricketts picked up lots of votes by giving a rousing and inspirational speech about the challenges facing modern Britian or perhaps it was due to Andy Peterkin shouting, 'Vote Steve- Get Ricketts!' This made him very memorable indeed!
Overall the day was a triumph with some fantastic campaign work from Paul 'La Machine' Seery delivering over 2,000 leaflets. Many thanks to Madeline and Mark Clarke for organising such a fantastic event.
For those of you that missed the debating clash- it will be on Conservative Home over the next few weeks - so watch out!
2 comments:
What a brilliant write-up Clare! those pictures really are smashing!
Ditto the comments by Steve. Also thanks for mentioning of me in the blog post Clare. It was very hard work that day but enjoyable.
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