Shouty personAll right, let's start timing when those emails come in. Or, to put it another way, how prepared were all the various parties and political movements.
Election was announced at 17.17.
Let's go. When did those emails start hitting my inbox?
First in at an absolutely stellar 17.17, we have #BestForBritain.
Next in at 17.18, we have the Open Rights Group.
We have our first political party out the gates at 17.23. It’s the #LibDems for the win (in this particular race).
Hot on their heels, we have the #Greens at 17.25.
And the last one for now … The #EuropeanMovement landed in my inbox at 17.31.
As of 18.06, we’ve still got nothing from Labour or the Tories.
I do, however, have an email from my dad containing a YouTube video of an exciting new recipe for corn on the cob.
Better late than never. #Labour’s email lands at 18.08.
Open Britain’s email lands at 18.13. To be honest, I don’t really remember who they are. But they’re ready. Apparently.
Stay tuned… the Tories will definitely send an email and I can guarantee two things.
1. It will demonstrate a shocking disconnect from reality; and
2. They will be begging for money.
Hey, guess what!
The Tory email landed at 19.22. And I wasn’t wrong about it.
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Police State UK@clacksee "This terrible Conservative government" that we sort of enabled originally, oops.
Peter Brett@clacksee I think #BestForBritain are pretty great and it's no surprise for them to be so on the ball.
Steve Loughran@clacksee facebook ads by Green Party at 17:34, but that was when I went there to check something. Could have been live a few minutes earlier
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@clacksee and within 3h of the announcement, the first paper flyers come through the letter box. That I didn’t expect. Bristol Central is one of the Green Party targets so they’ll be round more often than a bunch of Mormon missionaries chasing their end of month quotas
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Bragg@JMBragg @clacksee probably preprinted some months ago: it doesn’t cover its success in the May council election.
The coordination of door-to-door delivery, though, that’s impressive. Maybe party members in each ward had a box of flyers waiting for the “go post them” order. Wasn’t raining too much here…
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The coordination of door-to-door delivery, though, that’s impressive. Maybe party members in each ward had a box of flyers waiting for the “go post them” order. Wasn’t raining too much here…
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@clacksee 18h into #ge2024 and the second batch of Green Party flyers come in
-A “thank for voting green in the council elections” note in a handwriting font inside an envelope with the same text at 150 dpi, no grayscale
-full “Can Bristol send Cala Denyer to Westminster?” leaflet with photos from election results day and an updated par chart asserting that greens lead labour 49% to 40%
It’s going to be a long six weeks
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-A “thank for voting green in the council elections” note in a handwriting font inside an envelope with the same text at 150 dpi, no grayscale
-full “Can Bristol send Cala Denyer to Westminster?” leaflet with photos from election results day and an updated par chart asserting that greens lead labour 49% to 40%
It’s going to be a long six weeks
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