eastdulwichrover

Well, having seen that the Dulwich Society have a full list of candidates up, you'd have thought that this supposedly helpful "vote them out" site would have been updated to reflect the choices people have in the area if they oppose LTNs - you know, that's what they said their campaign was all about. You'll be surprised to hear that this site does not in fsct have any information of this kind on it aside from - yes you guessed it - another couple of sympathetic profiles of Tories standing in one of the other wards. Nothing anywhere on Green candidates. Looks like this isn't really the helpful voting advice website it sold itself as, unless by "helpful" we mean "helpful to the Tories". I mean, maybe this campaign coincidentally ran out of energy after they went round the entire area just before campaigning proper started, handing out their leaflets produced by "J Smith" who lives at a PO Box. Or maybe it was an obvious deniable Tory front operation. I guess we will never know unless "J Smith" tells us themself.

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The one I received was the red pdf here. I think it was delivered on 24 March which might not be uncoincidental timing. http://votethemoutmay22.org.uk/leaflets-posters/ It does have printing details and a name, but it's "J Smith" whose address is a po box in Streatham Hill which apparently is the same address as the "vote them out" group. Again I think this obvious hiding of their actual identities says quite a lot. As does the local Tory reticence to endorse a campaign which seems to very heavily favour them - surely they should be working together openly? Instead of, as seems to be the case, this being a curiously unlinked but vocally pro Tory supposed grassroots "group" who refuse to do public meetings but will leaflet homes across the area...

Yes, doesn't seem like this is quite the disavowal its intended as

Incidentally re environmentalists, the website doesn't mention the Green Party at all. The reason I'm calling this a pro Tory website, is because it is, in its content, a partisan pro Tory website. It talks down the Lib Dem candidates who are also running on an anti LTN slate and praises the Tory candidates. It's not even subtle.

Glad to see "vote them out" posting on here but still totally unwilling to give their names, or properly address the obvious pro-Conservative Party claims on their supposedly non party political website. Come clean - tell us who you are. The fact that you still won't, but you run a pro Conservative website, says quite a lot I think. Also re "we've given our sources for information on candidates" - this isn't true. There's a weirdly specific claim about a Labour councillor and a "fondness for advice about umbrellas" for instance, which seems to come from a brief 2020 twitter interaction. Again unreferenced and hardly the same scrutiny as the Tory candidates are given. Perhaps more tellingly, there's no sourcing for the chatty accounts of the Tory candidates' interests and jobs - they're not hard to find online, but neither is any of the other info on candidates, yet no citations are given for them. I'm assuming they didn't bother to put sources for the info because they either wrote the website themselves, or the person who wrote it knows them well. Again, nice try, but this does nothing to counter the pretty obvious source of this campaign, which is now fairly obviously the local Conservative Party who seem unwilling to put their party logo on this campaign, and I can't quite work out why.

The summaries on their website are frankly ridiculous in their skewed nature - the Lib Dems standing in Dulwich are critiqued on pretty flimsy grounds while the Tories are vocally lauded. It's telling that there are no names attached to this except "J Smith" who supposedly printed the flyers. Let's face it, this is a Tory front trying hard to pretend otherwise. Don't go to this site expecting objective information

This came through our door yesterday. Links to a website with long diatribes against lots of Labour candidates and the only info on anyone else are a couple of chirpy descriptions of Tory candidates. Local Tories, you need to own up to this being your campaign, and to put your name to it surely? Other local parties, if you genuinely are involved in this as is claimed, have a think about who you're allies with. I'll give you a hint, "wine fridge" and "hostile environment". This post is not an endorsement of the LTN scheme or Labour - but it is a request for the local Tory party to run an actual Tory campaign for their own party, rather than this.

I went today and they were very nice and had a look (they weren't busy which might have made a difference). They said a lot of stuff is already bundled up and will be delivered soon, but there was some other post waiting which they gave me. I showed my driving licence, probably worth taking ID.

If anyone can confirm that we can go to pick post up, much appreciated, but I am planning to try this in the next coupl of days anyway and so report back...

I'm just bumping this in case anyone missed it, and parents are looking for activities for their secondary school kids...

Hello! If you know a school student aged between 12 and 18 who enjoys creative writing, the 'BLT19' project at the University of Greenwich is running a short story competition with ?? voucher prizes. https://www.blt19.co.uk/short-story-competition-2020/ There's one competition for 12-16 year olds and one 16-18. The stories should be inspired in some way by the BLT online collections but otherwise you're free to write whatever you want. Deadline is 30 September. Good luck and happy writing!