The Great Signature Race

It's the home stretch for getting nominations in. The deadline is noon on Friday.

We finished collecting signatures (10 per ward) for Longford and Cheylesmore tonight. I need to get our papers for Upper Stoke signed bright and early tomorrow. We have two Young Greens from the University of Warwick running in Wainbody and Westwood wards. Both are away (in Wimbledon and Bristol) on half term, so one mailed her forms back to me today, and I'm picking up the other set of forms from the Bishop Street postal office tomorrow (a "sorry you were out when we tried to deliver it" slip was in my porch when I got back from Cheylesmore).

Assuming ("assuming" making an "ass" out of "u" and "me") that all the signatures from all the forms are fine, and there are no last minute hiccups, we'll have 15 candidates across Coventry (everywhere but St Michael's, Henley and Holbrook wards).

Eight of our candidates will be women. Four of our candidates will be 20 years old or younger. Two are both. We will be a pretty unique slate, even for the Green Party.

We're not selecting these folks because they are women, or because they are young.

They are coming forward and saying:

- I want to help out. I'm a member of the Young Greens at Warwick. I'm willing to be a non-target candidate in Westwood. Mail me the forms, and I'll mail them back.
- I live in Cheylesmore, and I'm broadly Green/socialist. I don't mind putting in a bit of work, and I want to be more involved.
- I want to help out. My brother was a candidate last year. I helped him leaflet in Cheylesmore. Can I run this year where I grew up in Sherbourne?