Caoilte O'Connor[1/3] The last #ge2024 Monday Newington Green canvassing organizers seemed well set so I actually volunteered to go straight out with a team. I got one of 10 "Get Out The Vote" boards. The campaign had switched tactics to securing 2nd contacts with every #VoteCorbyn pledge to remind voters that they needed ID on Thursday. Consequently the contacts were further apart and occasionally fed up with talking to canvassers (a problem that plagued the campaign).
[2/3] The number of "soft" pledges (people who change their mind) is one of the best gauges of how well a candidate is doing in an election. In #ge2019 my local race lost two thirds of our Labour pledges (largely anti-Brexit protest voters who preferred Boris to Corbyn). The numbers were much more promising for #ge2024 Islington North. We recorded dozens of reconfirmed #VoteCorbyn pledges and only one or two "antis" who had changed their mind or originally been recorded wrong.
[3/3] I've had lots of Labour Party members canvass with me (always paranoid about being incriminated by a photo). I even met a few people who had signed the notorious Islington North Labour Party mass resignation letter from the previous week. But on that Monday morning session I had an actual parliamentary candidate with me! He was standing for the Green Party somewhere up north and had taken time out from his own race to come down to London and campaign #VoteCorbyn.