What have the candidates been up to in my constituency?
Have they sent me any leaflets?
Leaflets yes
• Uma Kumaran(Labour) A letter from Keir with his six pledges, minimal promises. Looks like they sent out millions of these.
• Halima Khan (Workers Party) Roughly-folded and left sticking out of all our letterboxes. Headline 'End Labour Control' (which is odd, because they haven't had control since 2010). Kicks off with photo of her standing next to George Galloway and another next to Jeremy Corbyn). Promises to be "the first MP in British History to establish a service empowering my constituents to decide how I vote on key issues."
• Jeff Evans(Reform) Photo of Tice and Farage, easy-to read ticklists mostly about immigration, link to the party's social media. No photo of Jeff, looks totally nationally generic.
• Joe Hudson-Small(Green) Photo of Joe at Stratford bus station, list of local (council-level) Green successes. Urge to vote Green because the Conservatives are going to lose and Labour won't change much.
• Omar Faruk(Independent) Photo of Omar finger-pointing in front of a Palestinian flag. Logo of 'The Muslim Vote' campaign. Very dry letter ('Dear Resident') which seems to misunderstand the powers an independent MP has.
• Fiona Lali(Independent) A pile of leaflets dumped communally, not posted in individual letterboxes. Beat everybody else by about a week. One side a full-face portrait with hammers and sickles, the other side a fairly angry takedown of Labour, support for Palestine and mention of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Leaflets no
• Nizam Ali(Independent) (no, really not trying)
• Janey Little(Liberal Democrats) (no, although there are still four more days)
• Kane Blackwell(Conservative) (no, although these leaflets definitely exist)
• Steve Hedley(Independent) (no, although I have seen them being given out outside tube stations)
Campaigning
• Uma Kumaran(Labour) Has been busy all over the constituency, although Central Office would probably rather she'd been stomping round marginals instead. Took some days off campaigning when a) her grandmother died b) she caught Covid. Will still win by a mile.
• Kane Blackwell(Conservative) Some campaigning in the constituency but mostly to be seen in Sittingbourne, Bromsgrove, Chingford & Woodford Green, Colchester and Witham (campaigning for good mate Priti Patel).
• Janey Little(Liberal Democrats) No evidence on Twitter that she's been anywhere in the constituency. Is working behind the scenes for the Young Liberals and has been out doorstepping in Taunton and Brecon & Radnor.
• Joe Hudson-Small(Green) A fair amount of campaigning in the constituency but has also been active in the target seat of Waveney Valley.
• Fiona Lali(Independent) Trying really hard, has posted in-depth reports on local campaigning that make it sound like she's doing great. About 200 supporters attended a rally in Stratford Park yesterday ("One Solution! Revolution!")
• Halima Khan (Workers Party) Really quite angry online. Going all out to highlight Keir Starmer supposedly disrespecting Bangladeshis.
• Jeff Evans(Reform) No, but retweeting Nigel Farage a lot.
• Nizam Ali(Independent) Now up to 33 followers on TikTok.
