Door To Door Canvassing

Door-to-door canvassing is fun. I mean it. For the most part, people are polite and engage with you. It's a real buzz to hear the phrase, "I'm going to vote for you."

People seem fed up with "the main parties" or with a particular one (left-wing Labour voters, especially). There are folks who say, "I know what my politics are, goodbye," or "I'm going to be boring and vote Labour," but there are a surprising number of maybes.

Thatcher succeeded in moving the centre of politics to the right in a durable, medium-to-long term, way, and the Green Party needs to move the centre of politics towards our point of view. What we would like to create, and it won't obviously happen overnight, is more a situation where people are voting Green because they like our policies, rather than "we'll try you lot since we've got no use for the rest." Even if we maintain only 10-15% of the vote, but 3 years from now, the electoral debate in Earlsdon is centred on key environmental issues, that's an achievement.