Yet another
two Lib Dem leaflets have appeared today and the candidate Alison Hopkins is at
least becoming open about if the fact she wants people to vote for her, even if
she is still reticent about which party she represents and still doesn’t use
the usual Lib Dem colour, yellow, let alone acknowledge that the Lib Dems are
part of a central government which is forcing through local service cuts. She
can point out that local libraries are being cut by a Labour council, but evidently
feels safer not mentioning budget cuts imposed by central on local government.
We can be
sure that some earlier Lib Dem leaflets are for Alison, because they have
carried, albeit in tiny writing, the legally required information about the
publisher and who they are being published for.
This was
not the case with another leaflet that I received today. Headed “GUILTY” the
leaflet asks people not to vote Lib Dem. As this is something the Green Party
also wants, I wish to stress that we do not use illegal leaflets to promote our
aims, that this is not a Green Party leaflet and that the Green Party has had
no part in its production or distribution.
We have
produced only one leaflet. This carries the candidate’s name and uses the party
colour and logo. It makes some criticisms of our opponents and mentions some of
our key policy proposals. We are aiming to get voters to vote for us without contributing
more the “Dollis Hill election leaflet mountain” more than necessary or issuing
any publication which breaks electoral law.
Peter
Murry, Green Party by-election candidate Dollis Hill, March 2012
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