A glimpse into what the future could hold for the Liberal Democrats
On Friday night I headed over to Richmond to speak at the massive meeting to kick off the campaigns for Sarah Olney and Munira Wilson:
Wow! What an evening! Amazing buzz at launch of my campaign to be next MP for #Twickenham #Teddington #StMargarets #Hampton #Whitton this evening, with @vincecable and @TRLibDems, alongside @sarahjolney1 for Richmond Park & North Kingston. Thanks to @markpack for speaking too! pic.twitter.com/QrjHqoHYmL
— Munira Wilson (@munirawilson) November 1, 2019
In many ways, the event epitomised what the future for the Liberal Democrats could be like.
A diverse set of candidates in winnable seats.
A huge turnout of people who have recently joined the party, not campaigned before but are being mobilised in part by the new party pilot project I covered in Lib Dem Newswire.
Hello Ann! Came to campaign launch and will soon be canvassing for the first time – hooray! https://t.co/VrfqVhpIAu
— Mark Pack πΆπ (@markpack) November 1, 2019
And a canny bit of fundraising with not only the obligatory bucket but also an iZettle card reader which meant that for every Β£1 in cash donation in the bucket nearly another Β£3.50 was taken in card donations.
(Plus I got to tell the story about the Prue Bray board game.)
Brilliant campaign event with huge crowd and with @vincecable @sarahjolney1 @munirawilson – plus a few words from me about the importance of doorstep campaigning. pic.twitter.com/Frih63OOSz
— Mark Pack πΆπ (@markpack) November 1, 2019
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Liberal Democrats are ON FIRE! We’re going to WIN this GE (we’re not aiming for Second Place)
In my constituency (a very close Tory/Lib-Dem seat) our party workers have been out for over a month and already the opinion polls have put us marginally ahead of the Tory incumbent, and as soon as the election date had been announced we had a phone session organised to call past active supporters to come in again to leaflet, canvass, Phone, or even just to donate!
Our orange garden-boards are already appearing all over town (living in a first-floor flat on a corner property I have two in my windows). We mean BUSINESS !
Good work on the card reader. We saw donations soar when people could donate with PayPal too.
Opinion polls have put you ahead of the incumbent? Would you explain a little bit more?
Best of luck!
I live in Tiverton and Honiton we beaf the Conservatives and Labour in the European elections and have a Street stall approx 1 a month all year round