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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And what did you do about it?
07.06.2004 22:05
Rebel W
Rebel W
no we didn't do any of those things
08.06.2004 01:25
More pragmatically, we wanted to get on and leaflet as much as possible of the town, and the poster wasn't visible from the road.
We have bumped into Baggs and his 6 foot minder when we have previsouly lefalted the town. I am not scared of him - especally in an el3ection they don't need the bad publicity. I did receive threatening BNP stuff through my front door a while ago, and called in my contacts in the press to get a front page story in local paper about BNP bully boy intimidation.
In any event knowing that all of his neighbours has recieved and anti-BNP lefalet woulfd have made him/het ueasy I think.
On the other hand if you are asking whther anyone made a note of the address for the future ... ... ...
Andy
Searchlight anti fascists hmmm
08.06.2004 02:59
aaa
why searchlight leaflets
08.06.2004 17:34
I don't think it is perfect - but it is good.
What alternative meterial have the anarchist anti-fash produced that we could have used instead?
Or are you saying that only your form of anti-BNP acivity is worth doing - whatever that is. Please enlighten me.
andy
buy any means nessesary
14.06.2004 13:56
blahh