So it's the last lap now. Only a little over a day until polling day. I was out this morning with Andy Hewett from Greenwich leafleting commuters at Charing Cross station but did not get there as early as him (7.30am) as I had the usual candidates' emails etc to answere from voters and organisations. We had a quite good response and several people telling us that they had already voted Green.
This evening I am leafleting the busiest commuter station in Europe - Waterloo - which is rather appropriate for Europe's largest scale election. Joined by colleagues from Lambeth Green Party and others from further afield in London, we hope to jog the voting interest of tired workers returning home from their toil, and encourage them to think big and think Green!
It was interesting that on Question Time last week some in the audience were saying that they had not seen any material or campaigners in this election. Well in a city the size of London it is difficult to reach several million people, especially for a small party like the Greens. But our Freepost leaflets have been sent to many homes and our local parties have been leafleting like mad.
However, now is the last push and we will be trying to reach out to the hordes of commuters dashing home like a swarm of worker bees returning to the hive. But for workers, patients, parents, consumers and others June 4th is an important day and Londoners need reminding that more Greens in the European Parliament will mean a fairer and higher quality of life for those living in this most international of cities. So we will hope to reach out and in those few minutes before they board that train convince them that there is something worth voting for.
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