10 April 2008

Election Update -- 10th April 2008

- We have leafleted most of the "core" of Earlsdon -- streets from Albany Road and Winifred Road across to St Andrews and Shaftsbury and Palmerston Road. We just need to finish off bits of streets (the south side of Albany, the west side of Earlsdon Ave South, Osborne, Providence).

- Next will be areas like Beechwood Rd, Rochester Rd, Styvechale, the streets around Green Lane North, the streets south of Canley station, and Broad Lane/Tile Hill Lane (east of the A45) ... Earlsdon is a very oddly shaped ward! Parts of Earlsdon that consider themselves Earlsdon (just north of the railway tracks on Earlsdon Ave North) aren't part of the ward.

- A few people have asked about why we have printed our leaflet with Hillingdon GreenPrint, as in, why Ruislip and not a printer in Coventry? It's a valid question. Hillingdon prints using environmentally-friendly ink (very rare); the fellow behind it (Graham Lee) is helpful (he advised on the white lettering on green boxes in our leaflet); he's quick (Wednesday email to him, 6000 copies of A3 on my doorstep on Saturday); he's very affordable (it was £220 including delivery); and, if you check the Electoral Commission website, and search for Green Party donations over the last 3 years, he reinvests back into the party. So, yes, it's Ruislip, but, it's a trade-off for environmental impact of ink, of speed, and of cost.

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