Caoilte O'Connor[1/3] By 17:30 on the final #ge2024 Monday Jonathan was long gone from Newington Green and so were all but one of my boards. We had one small group of stragglers waiting to go out and by chance that was when Jeremy Corbyn himself turned up. I had no idea if the last board was any good, but it didn't really matter - it was all we had. I briefed the last board runner and the team set off looking very pleased with their celebrity #VoteCorbyn status.
[2/3] In theory everything had gone perfectly. Everyone got to go #VoteCorbyn canvassing promptly, with the correct briefing and all of the materials. It wasn't until the amazing Issy turned up a few minutes later that I finally began to understand the whole mess I had dug for myself. "Which boards from the earlier sessions are still out?" she asked. "I have no clue," I replied. "I don't have access to the spreadsheet and I don't know if Jonathan had time to collate my paper records."
[3/3] After twenty minutes of us trying to figure it out, I realised we had a more urgent problem. In 40 minutes the final crowd of #VoteCorbyn volunteers would want to go out canvassing and although I had a plan for reusing returned sheets from earlier, they weren't assembled as boards or in many cases even sorted. Some teams had very proactively split themselves up and so their sheets came back separately. I thought I had maybe five or six boards and did my best to start assembling them.