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Originally Posted by Aardvark
Read the following if you have time:
http://www.jrrt.org.uk/Purity%20of%2...20the%20UK.pdf
I read it in order to apply for a contract looking at electoral reform. If you haven't got time go to the analysis of spending in Merseyside by the various parties. The Tories have abandoned central Liverpool and the industrial heartlands and are pouring massive amounts of money into the constituency parties in the seats they seek to regain/gain. It is a strategy designed to ensure that the leafy suburbs return Tory MPs. The Tories are not embarrassed about having a stategy to win seats. The Tories from central Liverpool will rely on one posted leaflet and will catch the bus to the suburbs to campaign. Watch the results on election night and see how targetting works. |
Thanks for the interesting Link. In Lewes we fully recognize the importance of targetting our resources. Given how weak we are compared to the Tories and the Lib Dem's we haven't any choice in the matter. We are planning a meeting in the near future specifically for the purpose of determining what areas we need to target.
I note with interest that those areas of Liverpool which the Tories are ignoring include Bootle, which is the constituency where Paul Nuttall stood in 2005 and where he came a very close second behind Labour in this years local elections. With the Tories out of the picture there, this seat would seem to be a prime candidate to become one of UKIP's target seats in 2010.
Interestingly enough, in "safe" seats such as Bootle, the dominant party's strength is sometimes but an illusion. Apparently in Glasgow East, during the recent by-election, Labour organizers discovered that the local party had absolutely no record of who normally voted Labour - they had never needed any. This of course made it pretty much impossible to get their core voters to the polls on election day.