Leadership debate conclusion: the revolution will not be televised

Today, the papers are full of discussion and comment about last night's televised debate. The consensus is that Nick Clegg won. Polling companies, such as YouGov, put Clegg in front and the state of the parties polls are now showing that the Lib Dems are picking up votes from the other parties. Even Cameron and Brown admitted today that Clegg did well.

Even so, I quite liked the viewer who said that none of the "leaders" addressed her concerns or had "anything to say for working families about jobs". Unfortunately, the whole exercise is aimed at moving the UK towards a US presidential style of contest, where personalities count for all because there are only capitalist parties in the ring.

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Latin American hustings and Spanish leaflet

A really good hustings at the Elephant and Castle with more than a thousand Latin Americans.  I'll write a full report soon as I am off leafleting estates but here is the Spanish text of our leaflet

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Anticapitalists Target Bankers In Vauxhall Election Challenge

We sent out this press release this morning. Finally the official campaign is underway!

New initiative to stand in Vauxhall at General Election

Local teaching assistant Jeremy Drinkall is candidate

Anticapitalists say take over the banks, take back the bailout billions

Drinkall:

“Spend it on 1/3 of all Vauxhall council dwellings that are officially not decent.
Spend it on 51% of local children officially in poverty”

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Trade Union and Socialist Coalition launch rally London

Thursday night I attended the launch rally of the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the Friend's Meeting House, Euston, London. Newsnight, Radio Four and other media were there covering it.

It was a good, lively meeting and the candidates outlined why they were standing to fight back against the cuts. I wish all the TUSC candidates the best in their campaigns. As Dave Nellist said, "It's not just about votes, but what we do after the election." Hopefully we can use the next few weeks as a springboard for the launching of a new mass party of the working class.

Here is a longer report of the meeting from Workers Power.

Kennington Park residents tell Kate Hoey of Hyde Southbank failures

I was invited along to a Tenants Association meeting on Kennington Park estate in the Oval last night. It was a packed and lively – at times angry – meeting. I counted at least 40 residents and almost all of them had grievances against housing association Hyde and privatised utility firm Thames Water.

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Election work, Saturday, 20 March

Anyone who wants to help us leaflet tomorrow, please come along.


We are meeting midday at Oval tube, south London (it's on the Northern Line) to go leafletting in the area. So come along and help us.


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Campaign off to a good start

We kicked off our campaign last Saturday with a meeting of supporters, followed by leafleting and canvassing.

Twenty of us gathered in the Oval ward. While most were locals, some came from as far away as Colchester and Norwich. We started by discussing the big issues of this election: who should pay for the economic crisis, how all the main parties were offering the same, how to get the troops out of Afghanistan.

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