Comments on: Sheffield Central

By: dave

dave — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:33:21 +0000

“The quality of delivery is clearly patchy.”

How on earth can you know that?

By: Ed Raymond

Ed Raymond — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:16:22 +0000

Following up Craig on Feb23rd, The LIb Dems must be paying for their leaflets to be delivered with the volume that is going out. The quality of delivery is clearly patchy. It’s different when you are delivering leaflets for your own party as opposed to for minimum wage !

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:17:28 +0000

I think a fairly comfortable Labour hold here, particularly with the current narrowing nationally, even if it is not all maintained.

By: Dalek

Dalek — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:19 +0000

The Ladbrokes odds for this seat are close.

I think having a party leader close by can make a difference.

David Steel will have helped Archie Kirkwood defeat the Conservative MP Iain Sproat in the adjacent Roxburgh & Berwickshire.

Paddy Ashdown’s leadership may have also helped the Lib Dems take other Somerset constituencies.

By: BoneyM

BoneyM — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:54:02 +0000

Pete, by saying ’speaking to local people’ you expose yourself as a political hack. That isn’t how people speak. I wasn’t trying to attack any one party just pass on info. I do wonder why you choose to use this site to pretend you are just a regular voter.

By: Frederic Stansfield

Frederic Stansfield — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:56:16 +0000

Although the boundaries have since changed, Joseph.

Of course the “People’s Republic of South Yorkshire” would be an appropriate centre of power for a UK Prime Minister kicked out for upsetting the Western applecart.

By: Joseph Brayson

Joseph Brayson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:31:09 +0000

This was the seat of the fictional Prime Minister Harry Perkins in ‘A Very British Coup’ set in the late 1980’s.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:18:55 +0000

I got a leaflet from the Greens on Friday which roughly corresponds to what Ed says, then on Saturday I got 5! from the lib dems.

Pete, I’ve had 8 leaflets from the lib dems since christmas but only 2 deliveries(3 together in Jan, 5 together in Feb), not entirely sure what’s going on but I’m trying to decide if.

1: The guy that does the printing has forgot to talk to the guy(s) delivering and the only way they can get rid of the stuff is to do multiple leaflets in each delivery.
2: They’ve been given lots of money/leaflets from the national lib dems but the local delivery capacity can’t keep up.
3: It’s actually an intentional strategy

I’m tending towards number 2 (the mix of stuff I got at the weekend makes me think this) as 1 is just stupid and the various leaflets were so randomly assorted that if someone had planned to deliver loads of leaflets together there would be a coherent theme to them.

By: Pete Joines

Pete Joines — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:04:59 +0000

I have had about 8 leaflets from Scriven in last 2 months about 1 from Labour and none from anyone else!!

Speaking to local people my guess is this is going to eb close and a possible gain but I think still an close and open contest

By: BoneyM

BoneyM — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:04:47 +0000

I have received very little from the Lib Dems but this may be because I am in Manor Castle ward. In the 15 yrs I have lived here I have hardly ever got anything from anyone other than Labour.