Good Morning Sarah
I am voting for you but if you don't get the job, here are some suggestions why.
If anyone in the Lib Dems would like to speak in detail, I live a few hundred yards from the party office and could drop-in any time.
good luck
John Robertson, 2 Avenue Gardens, London SW14 8BP 0000 286 9947
(no reply recieved yet dispite email and paper copies sent)
Good evening John,
I’m not a career politician. It was never in my plan to stand for Parliament. But after Brexit and after seeing the direction the Conservatives were taking our country in, I couldn’t just sit idly by.
By-elections can really change things and tomorrow, you can use your vote to send the Government a powerful message about the direction they are taking the country.
The choice you face is simple.
For many years Zac Goldsmith has been one of the strongest voices calling for Britain to leave Europe. In this campaign he is backed by UKIP and many of the most Eurosceptic Conservative MPs.
If he wins it is a green light for this Government to continue its plan for a hard Brexit. Britain out of the single market – regardless of the damage that will do to our economy.
If he loses, we will send a strong message to this Conservative Brexit Government that will force them to change course.
Like so many people here, I voted Remain and I still believe that being a member of the European Union is what is best for Britain.
If you elect me on Thursday, I’ll take that as a personal mandate to vote against article 50, oppose Brexit and protect our membership of the single market.
So, if you want an MP who will stand up for you on Brexit and if you want to change the direction of our country, please, vote for me tomorrow.
Thank you,
Sarah,
Sarah Olney
Liberal Democrat candidate
Richmond Park and North Kingston by-election
PS: Some of the polling stations have changed since the last election - make sure you know where you’re voting tomorrow and check your polling station here: saraholney.org.uk/plan
I am voting for you but if you don't get the job, here are some suggestions why.
- There was no adult conversation in the leaflets about NHS claims. Liberal coalition ministers were keen to promote an income tax cut on low earners. There is a vague suggestion in the leaflets that Liberals are more in favour of NHS spending than conservatives. So there needs to be an adult conversation with voters with links to the manifesto or statements about what is a lower priority than the NHS.
- There was no adult conversation in the leaflets about Heathrow - the
alternatives, the detail, and what Vince Cable MP did specifically about
the issue when a cabinet minister.
- There was no adult conversation in the leaflets about single markets and tariffs; the candidates' blog post was simplified, the differences between herself and the other main candidate not spelt-out.
- There was huge spending and effort put-in to a Dame Edna style of politics that lost the last Liberal MP her seat. She was caught absolutely un-deniably pretending that there would be a hospital closure in order to "campaign" against it, whatever that means. Her claim and name are repeated in current Liberal literature and she has been appointed to the House of Lords with a junior trade minister position in the coalition dispite being thrown-out by voters. Just before being thrown-out she held a series of seminars around the constituency, I remember. I asked about national politics. She said "most people are interested in local issues - we may have another meeting about national issues later-on". This was extraordinary. There were also individual accounts of voters asking her to lobby about some issue or other - fairness at work or social care spending - and finding that she lobbied one way for individual constituents while voting the other way in the house of commons. This sounds a bit vague, but I tried to find a contact in the Lib Dems to raise a concern in clear detail and got no reply.
If anyone in the Lib Dems would like to speak in detail, I live a few hundred yards from the party office and could drop-in any time.
good luck
John Robertson, 2 Avenue Gardens, London SW14 8BP 0000 286 9947
(no reply recieved yet dispite email and paper copies sent)
Good evening John,I’m not a career politician. It was never in my plan to stand for Parliament. But after Brexit and after seeing the direction the Conservatives were taking our country in, I couldn’t just sit idly by.
By-elections can really change things and tomorrow, you can use your vote to send the Government a powerful message about the direction they are taking the country.
The choice you face is simple.
For many years Zac Goldsmith has been one of the strongest voices calling for Britain to leave Europe. In this campaign he is backed by UKIP and many of the most Eurosceptic Conservative MPs.
If he wins it is a green light for this Government to continue its plan for a hard Brexit. Britain out of the single market – regardless of the damage that will do to our economy.
If he loses, we will send a strong message to this Conservative Brexit Government that will force them to change course.
Like so many people here, I voted Remain and I still believe that being a member of the European Union is what is best for Britain.
If you elect me on Thursday, I’ll take that as a personal mandate to vote against article 50, oppose Brexit and protect our membership of the single market.
So, if you want an MP who will stand up for you on Brexit and if you want to change the direction of our country, please, vote for me tomorrow.
Thank you,
Sarah,
Sarah Olney
Liberal Democrat candidate
Richmond Park and North Kingston by-election
PS: Some of the polling stations have changed since the last election - make sure you know where you’re voting tomorrow and check your polling station here: saraholney.org.uk/plan
