Sentences with phrase «to deliver leaflets»

• I will confess in public — in 1964, aged 10, I and several others from my junior school delivered leaflets for Mr Pratt, our music teacher.

This is particularly true as these policies, which are the logical conclusion of any proper analysis of the ideas in books like Jesse Norman's Compassionate Conservatism, are meat and drink to the activists who deliver the leaflets and knock on the doors.

He continues to work hard in the party's interest: I noted last July, for example, that without any fanfare he joined the hundreds of activists delivering leaflets in the Norwich North by - election.

«In the 1983 general election a 13 - year - old boy delivered leaflets around my constituency pledging that Michael Foot would take Labour out of the European Union,» Baldry began.

Volunteers got up bright and early this morning, a spokesman tells us, and were delivering leaflets by five in the morning.

Not in the fact of delivering leaflets itself, more just that it was a healthy reminder that campaigning on the doorstep can come up against several different forms of obstruction.

As soon as we started to actually deliver the leaflets it rained harder — and these were targeted leaflets to specific households, so no mere matter of going from house to house — and after finishing the first round, we abandoned the outing altogether.

While a third of their membership have left, the rest have stayed and continued to knock on doors and deliver leaflets like there is no tomorrow.

May's elections will see armies of tireless volunteers across Britain delivering leaflets and speaking to voters.

• My mother - in - law, Win Francis, who has reached the ripe old age of 90 because of the hundreds of miles she has walked delivering leaflets for the Labour party, has just been informed she has been barred from voting, with no reason given.

Time is the issue and we need as many people in the constituency as we can possibly get to help deliver leaflets and knock on doors in these next few weeks.

The section for Labour supporters encourages the use of postal votes, asks whether the individual would consider displaying a poster in their window or deliver leaflets on their street and asks whether the individual would consider joining the party.

«They're the people who knock on doors, they're the people who deliver the leaflets, they're the people who raise the money.»

It's not a strategy she'll be adopting — government ministers will come up to Scotland as part of their UK role, but not to knock on doors or deliver leaflets for the Scottish Conservatives.

UKIP also faces claims from Labour that it has used agencies to deliver leaflets in the constituency, although Bruni - Lowe told BuzzFeed News this was untrue.

It's not preaching to the choir it's asking the choir to deliver leaflets around the village!

«If you want to be involved in the political process, go and stand as a candidate, work for one for one of the parties, deliver your leaflets, wear your rosette, argue what you think is good for the country.»

And the election, and likely re-election, of Corbyn is very much part of that phenomenon: from reports, few of the enormous number of new Labour members and supporters are keen to become in the hard tasks of attending planning meetings or delivering leaflets.

Any residual air in the inflated balloon of my ego was soon dissipated by my first foray into the front line: delivering leaflets.

But Mackinlay admitted his camp has occasionally hired agency workers to deliver leaflets.

For all the focus on leaders» debates, policy pledges and the inevitable gaffes in the final weeks, ultimately the outcome of the election will be decided by which party manages to motivate its supporters to knock on doors and deliver leaflets in the gruelling weeks ahead.

Her complaints about the lack of money available to her show that she either hasn't realised, or wishes to bypass, the hard slog of winning the support of hundreds of local people required to deliver leaflets for, and donate to, your campaign.

* low intensity activity: displaying election poster, attending a party meeting, liking on Facebook, following and retweeting on Twitter, driving somebody to the poll station, other ** high intensity activity: delivering leaflets, canvassing, standing as a candidate, helping run a party committee

11th April 2016, Politics.co.uk: The Corbynistas are noisy online — but will they go out delivering leaflets?

Andrew got involved in the party as a teenager by helping out delivering leaflets for the local branch.

Webb et al. find that party members are significantly more likely to engage in campaigning activities considered «high intensity», such as canvassing and delivering leaflets, compared to «low intensity» activities such as retweeting something from the party or putting up a poster.

Yes, it's history, but history has consequences, one of which is less people prepared to deliver leaflets, less prepared to vote Labour.

Hardened Tories, who had delivered leaflets and knocked on doors for years, found themselves passed over for bright young things.

Ex-Tory councillor Suzanne Evans, who has just switched to UKIP, said she felt her residents were not being properly represented by her old party and ended up delivering leaflets that were «wishy - washy» and «Labour light».

I look forward to visiting Stourbridge and delivering some leaflets for this fine candidate.

«As soon as I was old enough, my dad had me out knocking on doors and delivering leaflets,» he recalls.

I am just on my way out to deliver some leaflets - anyone is welcome to join us.

These rules must apply equally to all members whether they deliver leaflets, are elected representatives or are staff in the Leader's office.

Since parties rely so heavily upon activists come election time, to knock on doors, to phone bank, to deliver leaflets, they can not simply be roundly ignored.

«I'm my own man, Jeremy Corbyn like many others in the Labour party will be knocking on doors, delivering leaflets, fundraising, coming to phone banks, as are people who aren't members of the party.»

On a rainy December morning I decided to deliver leaflets for a local political party to experience a traditional form of door - to - door campaigning.

But don't take for granted long - suffering stalwarts who deliver leaflets, knock on doors and keep the party alive.

This event will be completely free of charge, and will not require those attending to knock on any doors, or deliver any leaflets!

I spent a day in Eastleigh yesterday, canvassing and delivering leaflets.

Our grassroots supporters, who deliver leaflets and fund the running of the party, must be given a choice of candidates who reflect their views.

Shutting down legislation like this, legislation that fundamentally goes against core liberal beliefs, reminds activists why they knock on doors and deliver leaflets.

«The leader's tour is entirely different to the series of complaints facing the Conservatives, who paid for numerous buses to take an army of activists to specifically campaign, deliver leaflets and knock on doors in individual constituencies.

Quest is a music producer but pays the bills by delivering leaflets, while his wife does shifts at a shelter for abused women.