One Labour Party member ripped up his party card on the night. The Tories came last behind the Greens and Communists. There was a great deal of noisy heckling, with shoppers and passers-by joining in. More than 20 supporters joined the activity and several streets were leafleted. They are now over halfway to their 3,000 election target.
People are very enthusiastic and many are willing to help with the campaign.
They held their first social event recently, a curry night. This was attended by ten people and raised 100 for the election campaign fund. They distributed about 1,000 leaflets, and signed up six people for the Socialist Alliance mailing list. Last week we signed six people up to the Socialist Alliance. The New Labour election agent approached the stall, but was seen off by an ex-Labour member of 24 years standing.