Mr Brown was asked for his reaction to the news that celebrity TV supremo Simon Cowell was backing the Conservatives and thought the prime ministers was tired. ”This election isn’t about celebrities, it’s about people“, he said. Yet we have had a lot of celebrity involvement in the national and local campaigns:
Labour celebrities: Ross Kemp, Jo Brand, Eddie Izzard, David Tennant.
Conservative celebrities: Michael Caine, erm….. (help me out here, I don’t watch the telly!)
Lib Dems: Floella Benjamin, erm…..
Busy outside Kilburn Station this evening. Picked up a whole host of goodies and the Evening Standard.
Team Glenda gave me a DVD with ROSS KEMP on it! ‘Gone in 60 seconds’ explains “what’s at stake on Thursday“. Hopefully. He. Makes. It. Easy. For. Me. To. Understand.
Some more celebrity messages for Team Labour attacking the Tories from Jo Brand and Eddie Izzard. And David Tennant shares with us that he thinks David Cameron is “a terrifying prospect” in a viewspaper ‘Britian’s recovery at risk from Tories‘.
I also read David Cameron’s Contract With [me]. Headline: If we don’t deliver, kick us out. Detail: In five years time.
Is back on its legs.
Whatever you do, don’t visit the web address stencilled on the windows of the building, unless you want to book an escort….
On this mornings electoral communication from the Labour Party, Dawn Butler highlights housing, in particular the investment in Stonebridge and St. Raphael’s Estate where monstrous concrete high rises are being destroyed, replaced with low-density and low-rise housing.
Are Brent Labour sure?
Only that is not Stonebridge. It’s Trellick Tower, 3miles down the road in Ladbroke Grove…..
The stock photo comes from PhotoEverywhere.
This isn’t the first time Labour have had stock photography issues locally. Remember the 50 extra police on Brent’s streets in Yasmin Qureshi’s materials in 2005 that were photographed in Shepherds Bush?
“Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it’s unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside.” Wilson and Kelling, 1982.
A building like this?
The ex-Unisys building on Brentfield has been empty for well over a decade. In 1997 the owners were granted planning consent to convert the office blocks to a 330-bedroom hotel, add a new penthouse storey on front block facing North Circular Road, a new single-deck car park and new boundary wall. The planning application was renewed in 2002, but nothing has happened on this site while all around what the wrecking ball of progress has flattened on the Stonebridge estatem the Hillside Housing Trust have rebuilt with low-rise low-density modernity.
I was attracted to the Labour posters along the boundary fence and the massive Vote Dawn Butler advertising hoarding, sadly fallen from grace and lying in the mud.
According to the planning conditions attached the the permission granted in 1997, “Prior consent may be required under the Town & Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992 for the erection of any advertising signs and/or hoardings on the subject site.” So I spoke with Brent Planning, who advised me that An Advertisement means:
And that No advertisement may exceed 0.6 square metre in area. From my measurements it looks like Brent Labour are in breech of the planning regulations.
Here are a few more snaps of the building and the Labour posters.
Liberal Democrat candidate Ed Fordham needs just 474 votes to win the seat from Glenda Jackson. Driving through QP this afternoon I saw lots of Labour posters and flags with only a few Lib Dem orange diamonds. Looks like there is mroe work for the Lib Dem team to do there. The Torys had just a single board – just like the solitary piece of literature I found from them today. Poor Chris Philp.
I’ve just scanned and uploaded all the materials I could gather in Queen’s Park ward of Hampstead and Kilburn to TheStraightChoice.
Is Barry Gardiner standing as an independent? You’d think he doesn’t want to be associated with Labour from the look of his campaign materials. See the full leaflet at The Straight Choice.
The Straight Choice election leaflet project is an archive of election leaflets distributed throughout the campaign. This is a helpful thing to be doing as …..
1) Promises that candidates make in their leaflets can be compared to what they promise to do elsewhere. In the future we can also compare the voting record of MPs with what they promised on the campaign trail.
2) It helps catch parties or candidates who are breaking electoral law – 2 parties have been reported to the authorities based on leaflets uploaded to TheStraightChoice.org in the past couple of weeks.
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3) We get to see how the corporate identity of the main parties messages are tightly managed nationally.
Check out Brent Central, Brent North and Hampstead and Kilburn at the StraightChoice website and join in.
