16 June (Part 1) - By not universally popular request
I was unpopular in some quarters for embellishing the blog banner with
EU slogans,
no one admitted to being upset when they were replaced by
Labour’s St. Michael’s ward election leaflet
but then there were adverse
comments when UKIP’s leaflet was made available in its entirety.
Things were simpler when BiB sat on the fence.
The EU slogans were my idea but the party leaflets came out of conversations with
representatives of those parties. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that either
made a direct request but it seemed to be a natural progression from what was discussed.
The Conservative’s don’t ask for anything, not even that I shut up, they hand that job to the police,
but contact is not entirely unknown. As one said to me the other day, the EU referendum can be a
great unifying factor. Well not in his own party but that is not what he meant.
From that conversation came the idea, request, call it what you like, that BiB
should carry some of Anna Firth’s short referendum videos that have been appearing on
Twitter. If I could make Twitter’s embed code work I probably would have done.
The best I have been able to do is bring to BiB a YouTube video which was produced
for German TV. It features Anna Firth who fought the Erith & Thamesmead seat for
Parliament last year.
Anna is the founder of a group called
Women for Britain which
is stridently anti-EU and been making a
noise all over the place. She ran an excellent General Election campaign in 2015
and lost badly. Even if history repeats itself she won’t be the most popular of ladies in No. 10.
Anna Firth on Twitter.