Wiltshire town Calne leafelted against BNP
Andy | 07.06.2004 00:39 | Oxford
20 supporters of Unite Against Fascism, (including members of the Labour Party, Lib Dems, Greens, Socialist Alliance, RESPECT and hunt sabs, and people who just don’t like fascists) leafleted Calne with 3000 Searchlight newspapers on Sunday 6th June. Calne is a small town in Wiltshire, quite nice, but not at all affluent and there are a few social problems.
Our original intention was to do the whole town, but it was simply too hot, we managed about half, then gave 1000 papers to other activists who will be leafleting Chippenham.
Why Calne? Robert Baggs, local manager of a health centre (with two asian doctors!) is a BNP candidate in the South West Euro election. He lives in Calne so this is the 3rd time we have leafleted in the last eighteen months.
We are mainly trying to demoralise him, as well as knock his vote down, and make it hard for him to recruit others. We did notice his house had a “for sale” sign outside, so hopefully he might be leaving.
Mainly positive reaction when we met people, but had a couple of “Mr angry” responses, and did notice a vote BNP poster in one window (not the candidate's)
Why Calne? Robert Baggs, local manager of a health centre (with two asian doctors!) is a BNP candidate in the South West Euro election. He lives in Calne so this is the 3rd time we have leafleted in the last eighteen months.
We are mainly trying to demoralise him, as well as knock his vote down, and make it hard for him to recruit others. We did notice his house had a “for sale” sign outside, so hopefully he might be leaving.
Mainly positive reaction when we met people, but had a couple of “Mr angry” responses, and did notice a vote BNP poster in one window (not the candidate's)
Andy
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