I have a very busy few weeks ahead of me as I am working
on the Euro election as Conservative Press Officer for the Eastern Region.
Getting media coverage will be particularly challenging because the regional press has been slashed with considerable redundancies and regard this subject as a bit of a turn-off anyway.
During the last Euro election in 2004, Conservatives won three seats, but this June I am hoping we can claw back one of them from UKIP who then won two. Disastrously for them, one of their former members, Tom Wise, is presently under police investigation over expenses fraud allegations and is now an Independent, having been suspended by UKIP.
We have two very talented and hard working MEPs seeking re-election, Geoffrey Van Orden and Robert Sturdy.
Our remaining stalwart candidates are:
This election is going to be unlike any other regarding communications because of the internet and social media. There was nothing like this in 2005 when I was Press Officer for Conservative parliamentary candidates in the Eastern Region during the last general election. What we learn about these new campaigning tools from this election will no doubt be of great benefit for the next general election. Obama’s tactics may have been great in America, but how successful will they be with engaging the British electorate?
Our message is clear: Conservative MEPs want to be in Europe, but not run by Europe. They want
- A referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
- To bring back powers from Brussels.
- To end the Strasbourg “circus†of a two-centre Parliament.
They seek to get the best possible deal for the people and businesses of Eastern England, and to represent their views in Europe.
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Good luck to them, Ellee. There seems to have been little media coverage about the elections.
Must be the most confusing blog/website, whatever it is I’ve come across but here goes:
http://abriefencounter.blogspot.com/
Interesting indeed. I wonder just how the elections will go, since all the bad new re the economy.
Might be an intersting result
Good luck to them and to you!
Gregg, yo wouldn’t have an hidden agenda now, would you?
Thanks Capt Picard, Simon and WW, and yes, it certainly should be an interesting election.
Really intrigued to watch the discussion around consumer protection, privacy data, and international trade develops with regard to social media via social media. Will be following on Twitter and your blogging. Thanks!
I glad that you are supporting Libertas on European policy.
A referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Great.
Ending the “two parliments” foolishness. Even better.
And supporting the issue of individual countries being responsible for the laws that effect them.Spot on
Once again thanks for your support
Hi Bill, glad you found me, and thank you for your support!
Thanks too Linda.
Good luck, Ellee.
If I lived in the ‘East’ I would be on yer side… do we have these elections in the South?
What a brillian gig, my friend. I am envious. Sometimes I miss the hurly-burly of day-to-day journlism.
That was meant to read ‘brilliant’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSXytHLIXCU
When do we get our referendum ?
… because I feel that to take part in the Euro election is to endorse the whole entity and to acknowledge the authority of the EU and therefore perpetuate the whole sordid institution.
“Take part in the Euro elections and vote for us. We’ll give you your referendum.”
Our own government should be doing that.
All the people ever wanted was a common trading area. Asking us to ‘take part’ in any of it is mendacious dupery.
Sorry, Ellee. Not blaming you – just those you work for.
Jeez
Did anyone watch the video I pasted ????
Hi Kevin, sorry you feel neglected. I know how hard working my MEPs are, but any system that is open to abuse clearly needs tightening up.
Whilst the aims of the Tories may be laudable they will never have the power to achieve them.
Libertas as the only pan Europen party is the only one that can achieve these objectives.
Libertas.eu
The Tories are Im sorry to say all talk on Europe and as deep in the trough as the rest .
The lot standing wont make a half penneth of difference but will no doubt be taking all the allowances and perks.
Im voting for Robin Page and any one else who is prepared to say we never voted for this corrupt edifice and the only way is out .
Good on you-vote for Robin Page
Only trouble is its a proportional representation system with a threshold of over 150,000 votes to get a candidate elected
So you have no chance that Robin will get in (which I have to say is just as well as although he is no doubt a “character” who stands up for some things he believes in, he seems to be unconscionably bad at putting his hand up and admitting when he is in the wrong (eg when caught speeding), which makes me question how straight he really is.
On the other hand every vote less for a major party increases the likelihood that a candidate from the one party which holds really unacceptable views (ie the BNP) will get elected.
So go ahead-have your protest vote for Robin or Libertas or the Jury team. Just don’t blame anyone else when the Skinheads come knocking
Its up to the main political parties to stop the likes of the BNP (not an illegal organisation by the way ) getting elected and they can only do that by stopping the rot and getting this country back to how it was 40 years ago.( fair tolerant but with a shared way of life and value , where we had welcomed strangers for centuries who wanted to be part of that way of life )
Listen to the ordinary bloke in the street, they are utterly sick of how the country is now being run and how that impacts on their lives.They feel like strangers in their own land who dare not even express a Christian view of life.
And they dont see any change really planned by any of the ruling political classes.
Pretty nigh impossible looking at the Tories , Labour or Lib Dems.
Well, disaffected, I agree with pretty much all you say down to the last line. I believe that the current Conservative Party would also agree and what is more be the only party with a chance of effecting any change
That’s a great job! Good luck to them, Ellee. Regards. Amanda.