Philobiblon

I may not be around a lot this week, since I’m going to be very involved with the final election run-in. For those just joining the story, I’m running for the Greens for Regent’s Park ward on Camden Council, and there is a significant chance that I might be elected.

If you’re wondering what a local election campaign in Britain is like, the BBC has a report on the Norwich campaign, which bears some resemblance to Camden, except they are, from the Green Party perspective, one more campaign along from us. We’re hoping to get at least half a dozen councillors, who could well end up with the balance of power in a NOC (No Overall Control, as the jargon has it) council, which is the situation in Norfolk now.

Campaigning basically involves knocking on lots of doors, or ringing lots of security buzzers, asking people to vote for us, and to put up our posters. (Highgate in particular has a real poster war going – I was in a street there yesterday in which about 25 per cent of the houses have posters, which shows that people will get involved in politics if you try hard enough. No Conservative posters, however – not sure if the Tories don’t do posters, or if being a Tory is so embarrassing that people refuse to publicly acknowledge it!)