Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Forgotten past

70 years have passsed since the evacuation of Dunkirk, marking a formidable push for hitler's Nazi army into Europe. The second world war will be rememberd for all of history... or will it?

The history of the second world war has always been retold in classrooms around the country to remember the heroes that fought and serve as a warning from history never to happen again. However is this still the case? More than 70 years have passed since the war ended in Europe with Hitler's army defeated in the German capital. However it is vitally essential that the story of the second world war is repeated time and time again, youngsters must know of the hardships our forefathers endured in fighting for queen and country against the German war machine. I saw a question on yahoo answers asking; 'why should we study world war two?'. If the youth of today even need to ask that question then clearly the educational system has failed somewhere down the line.

Children should learn about the toils of the second world war, it should be an important part of education as without remembering what happened all those years ago history is sure to repeat itself.

Sunday, 23 May 2010

Rags to Riches - Blackpools fairy tale story

In only four years Blackpool have fought their way up from the third tier of English football to the dizzy heights of the Premiership. They continued their glorious assent to the top with a exciting 3-2 win over Cardiff City yesterday at Wembley. A thrilling encounter which saw no less than 5 goals scored in the opening half has lead Blackpool to the big time.

The estimated jackpot of winning this promotion comes to around £90 million pounds; once TV contracts and parachute money is added into the mix. The game of football has very much become about money these days; after all it is a business, even though many top flight teams such as Man United seem to be drowning in debt. Ian Holloway himself has said how much the money will affect the area of Blackpool, a once thriving beach side resort home to many sun seekers looking to escape the cities. However this was a long time ago and with the advances in technology it was inevatale that over seas travel would take over, leading to a slump in the town which did unfortunately devestates local business. Now there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel, with presumably increased gate revenue and increased exposure of the once buzzing town Blackpool has a lot to look forward to come September.

This is a fantastic footballing story that once was a distant memory only pulled off by the greats of Brian Clough and Notts Forest, taking a second division team away from relegation and into Europe in a matter of years. Even with the ever growing money in the game, this is a feat that has not happened in years, the likes of Millwall came close making the play-offs about 5 years ago but finally we have the beautiful game back! With a team that only get paid £90 a week in the off season, only pulling in gates of around 8,000 a week it is almost unbelievable that they will be visiting the likes of Old Trafford and Anfield next season.Holloway has proved that by installing beleif with good man management, with very little money, good teams can become great. Starting as relegaton favourites Blackpool have had a steady season always in and around the play off zone. This should be a boost for any team in any league the message is clear - It IS still possible to get somewhere in football with grit, hard work, and determenation. I say with a grin on my face; the beuatiful game is still as beautiful as she ever was.

Revision Notes

Mary Wollstonecraft asserts that the social subjection of women was partly due to nature and partly due to education why?

Mary Wollstonecraft accepted herself that by nature women weaker and by this sense were dominated by males they need protection. However education was something that Mary thought should be a natural right for women, in line with the thinking of Rosseauea who during the romanticism asserted there should be rights for all, although Rosseau himself was against women eduction and in this way they differed. Mary thought that women were to blame for letting themselves be oppressed rather than blaming men for oppressing. Mary thought like Hobbes in the way that people are a blank slate and with education and experience create ideas and become a rounded person. Mary thought that this school of thought applied to women as well, and that they should be able to learn things. This was very much against the views of Aristotle who claimed that women were an inferior species and believed that women were a species that were ‘naturally slaves’. Aristotle’s views were what society accepted for years until this point. Mary is often criticized for her relationships with men even trying to kill herself when rejected by someone who she was having an affair with. In the Vindication of the rights of women she says women accepted the role of women in society, education would set them free. Mary thought in the public space people should be viewed as human being not as separate genders.


Compare the epistemological stance of Keats in ‘ ode on a Grecian Urn’ to that of Kant in ‘critique of pure reason’

Keats ‘ode on a Grecian urn’ is a romantic poetic view on the epistemology of life. Romantic poetry at the time in England focused on the beauty of the Noumenal world. Aesthetics is the study of beauty itself, many people in the early 1800’s viewed life and the way in which the world worked aesthetically. Many believed that and beauty is truth and truth is beauty as asserted in ‘ode on a Grecian Urn’, anything that is beautiful is real e.g. a beautiful plant must be truthful and real due to its beauty. There has been great debate about what that final line of the poem means, it could mean that things exsist if they are beautiful, however this would go against Kant’s stance on the epistemology of life. Kant thought that there were two different worlds; the nomenal and the phenomenal. The nominal being an object itself and the phenomenal being something that is perceived by the world, he would argue that an object not being perceived does therefore not exist. However Keats would say that the feeling received from the vision of something beautiful meant that it was real and did always exist. Kant also argues that there should be a universal law e.g. ‘make all the money and power come to me’ cannot be universal as other people are left out. Berkley was a phliophser who Kant agreed with who said that things only flash in and out of exsistance and agreed with Kant that the mind shapes what we see. He also thought that everyone had a moral law within and was able to distinguish right from wrong.


An essay on human understanding chapter: Mircacles. Why does Hume assert that every observable phenomena is a miracle?

Hume is very sceptical about everything, and believes that nothing can ever be known for certain. He believes that everything is a miracle, Hume would argue that there is no causality in nature. This means that nothing is always certain, there is no law of nature that says this. Hume believes that even though the sun has set there is nothing that means it will rise the next day, once in does rise and becomes a phenomena ( when it’s been viewed) it therefore becomes a miracle as there is no guarantee of it . Hume also doubts what he calls; ‘human testimony’ Hume thinks that humans cannot be believed to have seen something for many reasons including; not many people being a witness, the person being unreliable and humans tendency to wanting to be seen as truthful and not a liar. In other words Hume is saying that people cannot accept something as being true just because they have been told it, only once to you have viewed the phenomena for yourself can you be certain that it is true. Humes essay on human understanding encourages people to find the truth for themselves rather than accepting what they are told.

Hume asserts certain inductive knowledge that we know is for certain.


Axiom- Absolute truth, geometry term – the starting point – ‘all men are mortal’
Apriori – Knowledge without experience, something that cannot be proved. – ‘I think, therefore I am’
Aposteriori - Gaining knowledge through experience, opposite of Apriori
Induction - Adding knowledge to something that you know is true, gaining information to get to a conclusion. Using the method of science.
Deduction – Deriving conclusion from original idea. Deducing the truth from a statement.


Contrast philosophical materialism with idealism reference Hegel and Marx
Materialism epistemological stance is that the world consists of atoms and physical objects.

Idealism is the view that everything you see is a mental phenomena, physical things don’t exist we just see everything that is created by our minds.
Hegel- Idealist that thinks nothing at all is matter and everything is spirit, manifestation of ‘Geist’. His view is teleological - everything happens for a purpose because there are rules. If an adorn falls from a tree its purpose is to become an oak tree – logic.
Marx – Hegelian descendant, a materialist believes the world is made up of atoms and things. Marx himself claimed he was not a materialist in the sense of John Locke, Hume etc. He believed that ideas to have a material effect in the world. Locke (an empiricist would disagree). Marx dismisses empiricist thinkers he sees them as capitalists against communism.’ ‘I’ve stood Hegel on his feet’’

Discuss: Economic, demographic, political, technological and sociological factors influencing papers and Journalism. 1815-1915.

Economic – Free trade, printing things to make money which is new. A lot of taxes are lifted such as the Corn Laws, this allows for money to be made. A more liberal state, mercantilism is dissolving. Individuals can print and now make profit.

Demographic – Cobbett moving around farmers being moved and urbanisation begins with highly dense cities and towns. People migrating from Europe (New York).There is a market of the same people affected by the same thing that can be printed and sold to millions of people in London.

Political – Radical press. Repeal of stamp duty, no censorship and the high taxes are lowered allow for more production. The country is a lot more Liberal allowing freedom of expression etc.

Technology - Steam driven press allowed for thousands of copies to be printed a night, which lead to massive copies, very profitable.
Railway trains meant there could be massive distribution all over the country which leads to high circulation.
Telegraph, 1860’s meant up to date reports first done in Crimean war.

Sociological – Migration to America class language gender etc. Hearst and yellow journalism appealed to the masses.

Friday, 21 May 2010

Swift and Addison

Adam Smith
· Seen as a pioneer of political economy, Adam Smith studied moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Oxford University. Starting his professional career as a lecturer he is well known for writing the books ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ and later after travelling across Europe; ‘The wealth of nations.

Smith is against slavery, not morally but because he thinks it does not work economically to have slaves instead of free men working. Smith goes on to make this point by stating that free men who will benefit from a good crop of produce will naturally want to work harder and make profit.

‘Such tenants, being freemen, are capable of acquiring property, and having a certain proportion of the produce of the land, they have a plain interest that the whole produce should be as great as possible, in order that their own proportion may be so.’

Smith makes the point that being free men they will have a certain proportion of crop and will want the crop, whatever it is, to grow well and thus will put a lot more effort into seeing it succeed. He thinks that they will have the opposite mindset of a slave who will have no motivation.

Jonathon Swift

· Jonathon Swift takes a satirical look at the current goings on at the time of the Irish famine. In his publishing ‘A modest proposal’ he makes a long winded sarcastic suggestion at the predicament that the Irish people find themselves in at the time of the famine. Essentially he has written about eating your own children, even at one point suggesting on how they should be cooked. He of course does not really think people should eat their children, but this is how he sees people like Smith thinking.

Swift takes a very sarcastic and humorous approach to his writing in ‘A modest proposal’. Although the writings of Smith were written many years after, Swift is attacking the sort of thinking of people like Smith who are constantly trying to figure out prices, profit and business. He takes a very sarcastic viewpoint, when saying;
‘Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants; the mother will have eight shillings net profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.’
Here he is talking about the profit of selling a child (for food) and the woman producing another as something similar to growing and selling corn. By taking such a blunt satirical look at empiricist thinking, that Smith will go on to write about, he looks down on people who only think of profit.

Court reporting (2008)

Law Report

On Wednesday 22nd of October at 10:30am Winchester Crown Court heard a case involving a man charged with manslaughter, the case was ongoing from a previous date this is how the case unfolded.

Firstly before the jury arrived the Barrister for the prosecution put forth the idea of using CCTV footage as evidence in the case. The Barrister for the defence did not refute and the judge felt it was necessary for the case. The judge then made it clear to the jury that the fact that the first witness has decided to remain anonymous should have no reflection on him and should not change the authenticity of his evidence.

The first witness, David Imborg, approached the stand behind a curtain to protect his identity and swore on an oath that his evidence was truthful. The prosecution started the questioning, the barrister asked if he lived in a house in Bournemouth to which the witness replied ‘yes’. Then he was asked if on the 23rd of February he went to the Dolphin Pub to which he also replied ‘yes’. The witness then went on to say he went to the pub at 10:00pm that night with his friend Michael and another friend, and went to meet Michael’s friend Liza. After the formalities’ where out of the way the witness went on to describe what went on that night. He began with saying how Michael suffered racial abuse when entering the pub which led to them drinking outside in the smoking area. The witness was asked how much he had had to drink that night to which his reply was ‘two vodka oranges’. The usher then handed the witness photos of the aforementioned smoking area in the Dolphin pub. The Barrister then asked exactly where the witness was situated in the photos. The witness then went on to recall hearing the bell ringing in the pub for last orders at roughly 11:50pm. He goes on to describe seeing three people sitting at a table; a man one side, a lady opposite and a third man who he believed to be standing. The witness said he then heard an argument at which point the woman at the table threw the contents of her pint over the victim, and then flick a cigarette at him. The glass, now empty from the contents being thrown, fell and smashed and the victim looked at his hands as if checking for blood. The witness described the woman as being roughly 5ft 3 to 5ft 5 inches in height. The witness then said that he did not pay attention to the incident after it had happened and carried on. Later the witness says that the woman and third man who had been around the table walked off towards the car park, the witness described the man who had been shouted at by the woman as a bit off balance as he had had possibly too much to drink. The witness went on to describe how he heard an argument between the people in the car park to which he can remember hearing ‘ I’ll see you in Mr Green tonight’ being said by the woman to the victim. The witness said the woman was facing the victim whilst saying this and standing next to the other man and her body language, in his words, was very ‘dynamic’. He then went on to say that the man standing with the women threw a punch at the victim. The witness described the punch as a ‘prepared action’, he said that the man took his arm back and got ready to deliver, what he described as, a ‘knockout punch’. The witness was then prompted to show the punch and he complied. The defence barrister then asked for the prosecution barrister to repeat and he did so. The witness then said the punch hit the victims face who was standing upright with his arms by his side, which he was again prompted to show the action which he complied and did again. The victim was described as hitting the floor ‘like a weight’ after receiving the punch. He went on to say that he could hear the impact of the body hitting the ground and that the victim did not put his hands out to break his fall. The witness then saw the alleged attacker run from the car park, at which point the witness and his friend went to his assistance who he described as not conscious.

Defence Barrister cross examines the witness:
The defence Barrister firstly asked the witness to look at the photos of where they were sitting on that night. The barrister said how it sounded like a ‘friendly atmosphere’ at the pub to which the witness agreed. The Witness was then given his own statement he made in March. The Barrister asked if the victim had anything in his hands, and was then asked to look through his statement which implied that the victim may of had something in his hands when approaching the woman and defendant. The barrister asked David where Jason ( the victims) hands were. The witness said at least one arm was by his side. The jury then put a question forward asking if Jason had picked up the glass or anything from the table, to which he witness replied he could have picked something up.

A second witness then approached the bench, without the screen. The Witness goes by the name of Liza, she too swore on the oath before sitting down.

Prosecution:
The witness said she went to the pub to meet Michael, she was handed photos of the hut and showed where she sat at the back. Liza said she knew the victim Jason but referred to him as Tony. Liza was then handed her statement from the night. Her account of the nights incident started with two women sitting on the same table as Jason and a blonde woman saying ‘you’ve been giving me funny looks all night’ to which Jason replied ‘ no I haven’t’. Liza said the women were with two men. The witness said that one man said to the blonde lady ‘come away we’ll deal with it later’. Liza said that as the argument continued and the glass smashed ‘Emma’, a barmaid working that night, told them all to go home. The two women and men left and were followed into the car park by Jason. The blonde lady then shouted at Jason as she stood behind one of the gentlemen. Then the gentlemen pretended to box Jason and then hit him with his right fist, which knocked Jason to the ground. Liza said the man paused briefly then ran away as did the other people with him, at which point Emma and Liza went to his aid. Liza was questioned on whether there was any glass around Jason but she could not see any.


Defence Cross Examination:
The defence questioned Liza on what area of Jason she was concentrating to which she replied the head. The barrister questioned whether it was possible for her to notice any glass as she was trying to keep the head wound from getting any worse. The Barrister was suggesting that Liza did not have the best view of the incident and that maybe the defendant approached the blonde lady berating Jason and asked her to leave and calm down. In her statement she had previously told the P.C. on the scene that she could not give a detailed account of what had happened and instead rung her friend Michael who spoke to the officer over the phone, and Liza could only give a description of the man. In Liza’s statement she had said the man who threw the punch was between 30-40 years old, 5ft 11” – 6ft in height, had a ring on his middle finger, had in Liza’s own words; ‘a skinhead’ and a black jacket. The Barrister said that his client did not have a black jacket on that night, nor did he have a ring, and was implying that Liza’s evidence may not be 100 per cent reliable.

The CCTV footage of that night was watched by the landlord of the Dolphin Pub on Sunday morning and was then given to the Police. The DVD was then played to the jury.

Winchester (2008)

Christmas at Winchester all fun and games?

Winchester has already got its Christmas celebrations off to a start; with Christmas lights, ice skating and many more festive events coming up in the near future, but could this also mean mixed reactions from local businesses.
If you are anything like me then just the thought of Christmas shopping ignites a flaming hole burning its way through your pocket. However, Christmas is a time of happiness and historically the celebration of Christ’s resurrection (not forgetting the annual Christmas dinner binge eat and two weeks off work!).
There are Santa bag full’s of activities happening in Winchester including; an ice-rink, West meon Christmas fare, cathedral tours, Winchester cathedral market and many more.
With more people visiting the town centre to partake in these Christmas activities, you may think they bring more revenue for the local business, putting a pleasant blanket of Christmas snow on the dark drab reality of the credit crunch. However local businesses such as Reflex have spoke of the detrimental effects of the fare such as Jane Winson, Manager of Reflex, Winchester High Street
‘‘There are signposts to go down abbey passage... the people not familiar with Winchester might miss out on this end of the high street. (The stalls)Sell cheaper than the regular retail price on items that I pay for my shop.’’
On the other hand, businesses such as Shoon, find that they are generally not effected by what is going on in town.
‘‘Our customer base is relatively return over and over’’ Lisa Manager of Shoon
So could the signposting leading punters away from local business such as Reflex heap more doom and gloom on British businesses in the credit crunch? Or will the Christmas fare help chain businesses in their time of need? Only time will tell, but for now everyone should take in all there is to offer in Winchester at this time of year.

Popular Journalism

The birth of popular journalism

The birth of popular journalism is often attributed to one William Randolph Hearst. Hearst’s first newspaper was the San Francisco examiner which he took over from his father in 1887. The gold rush in the late 1870’s lead to his first real adventure as a newspaper magnate, over exaggerating the amount of gold being found in San Fran lead to a huge number of newspaper sales. This style of over exaggerating or ‘bending’ the truth is now commonly attributed to today’s modern tabloid papers. The recent invention of telegraphing news only helped as it meant up to date reports on the gold being found in his paper advertising shovels, praying on the greed on humans and providing the necessary tools to get the gold. After major success on the West coast Hearst had his eyes on the most powerful city on earth; New York, where he started the ‘New York Journal’. Here he came into direct competition with Joseph Pulitzer a Hungarian Radical escaping oppression, very much on the side of the poor and the downtrodden who had the East coasts only main paper the ‘New York World.’ At the time both men were part of the emerging United States that was singly handily wiping out the indigenous settlers that were there before its discovery to the rest of the world. San Francisco where Hearst was settled was formerly a Mexican province that they were forced out from creating the state of California, this was largely due to the influx of Europeans coming over trying to get part of the gold rush. Eastern Europeans and Irish made up a large number or poor immigrants coming over looking for work. New York at the time provided Hearst and other wealthy business owners with cheap labour however people still were free and had many rights. The ever expanding cities lead to high rise buildings being built due to high population density. This lead to better distribution tube links cheap food and extremely cheap resources from the South all which Hearst profited off.

The term ‘yellow journalism’ or ‘yellow press’ is often attributed to Hearst’s style of paper in created in New York. The term means to create news with eye-catching headlines with vastly over exaggerated stories often about crime, a tactic which prayed on people’s vulnerability and sold many newspapers. Hearst was intent to take down The New York world and after investing a large sum of money, did his best to reduce Pulitzers circulation including knocking down the prick of the Journal to only one penny, in contrast to Pulitzers two cents New York world. Hearst achieved this by appealing to the popular market, and focusing on circulation his papers, again the cheap labour being a useful actor in employing people in factories printing and then distributing the paper. Another tactic used is the introduction of competitions in his paper; Hearst also employed world renowned writes such as Mark Twain, as well as luring away Pulitzer’s writers with extremely large salaries. Another big scalp on Hearst’s part was the acquisition of the cartoonist Richard F Outcault who drew the ever popular ‘yellow kid’ cartoon in Pulitzer’s paper. The character was very popular amongst the public and was another factor in the every growing sales of Hearst’s newspaper. Pulitzer and Hearst’s yellow journalism is often thought to have played a massive role in the up and coming American-Spanish war. There had been many attempts of an uprising in Cuba to gain independence from Spain, the then President of the U.S. was pushed into a war he was trying to avoid due to public pressure fuelled by over exaggerated news stories from Pulitzer and Hearst’s papers. The Spanish army were committing atrocities against the Cuban people and Hearst made sure that these were publically known. Also the sinking of the ‘USS Maine’ by the Spanish harboured in Havana, was widely publicised one of many events that vilified the brutal Spanish people. Although at one point when Hearst had sent one of his Illustrators to Cuba he is reported to have telegraphed Hearst saying there was no chance of anything happen least of all a war to which Hearst is believed to have replied; ‘You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war’.
Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles is the story of Charles Foster Kane, loosely based on William Randolph Hearst. Hearst used his power and connections to limit the number of bookings of the film which lead to average reviews; he also made sure that any mention on the film was strictly prohibited in any of his publishing’s. Hearst eventually set out to destroy Welles by threatening to reveal Hollywood scandals about his private life that he had previously kept quiet about at the request of production companies. The film paints Charles Kane as a dark lonely figure, a media magnate who owned many papers similar to Hearst. The film draws many similarities about Kane and Hearst inheriting business from their fathers, in the film Thatcher receives a telegraph that Kane would rather take over a small newspaper than peruse a career in Mines or the banks. Hearst is portrayed as someone who is very much living the ‘American Dream’ starting with nothing and although inheriting a small business worked himself to the very top with little help just perseverance and following a dream.

Politics shadowing

Michael Cox Lib Dem Uxbridge and South Ruislip
Prospective Parliamentary candidate Michael Cox became councillor for Ruislip Manor in 2002 where he became deputy leader and leader for the liberal democrat group. The area of Uxbridge and South Ruislip is Conservative; however South Ruislip has only recently joined the constituency due to boundary changes. South Ruislip is traditionally a working class area which leans towards labour. Hillingdon council, the London borough in which Uxbridge and South Ruislip lies is also Conservative.
The first day of canvassing started in the Hillingdon east area which covers the Uxbridge side of the constituency. The area has a mix of ethnicities including Asian, polish and white British. The road being targeted lies of a dual carriage way leading to Hayes, a slightly less wealthy area industrialised with many housing estates. Michael Cox was canvassing people on the register that had already voted as well as new voters, he had alongside him an actor by profession looking to stand for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in the local elections. Mr Cox says that he is targeting Liberal Democrat voters as they ‘cannot turn voters on the door step’. An interesting political strategic move used at some houses was to advise voters to split their vote in the local elections. Mr Cox did this by letting the person know Labour were very unlikely to get in and that giving two votes to the Tories and one to the Liberal Democrats may be a way of voting. This tactic was only largely used on home occupiers that had already decided to vote for the conservative party. One interesting observation that caught my eye was that the area was in a part of Hillingdon that contained a lot of flats some with students, a lot of people you would not consider to be your typical every day conservative voter. Mr Cox encouraged many people that were sceptical about their vote, and considering not voting at all to vote for somebody. This was something that took me by surprise, surely a parliamentary candidate for the Liberal democrats doesn’t want to lose and vote and potentially gain one for the Tories? This was a rather humbling notion to show that politicians think about what is best for the good of the country. The manner in which Mike Cox approached people was very much the same and only slightly differed from person to person. Some people clearly knew quite a lot about the elections and each party’s manifesto; however some weren’t sure about the whole process. It seemed that Mr Cox played this by ear and got into greater depth about policy with those who had a sense about party policy and manifesto information. The majority of voters were leaning towards the Conservatives, however there was a fair share of the street that was voting Liberal Democrat and of course the odd far right party’s including BNP and NF. Further down the street we were met with some hostility from a resident who had lost all faith in politicians and would not be voting as she had been let down by the council many times, the expenses scandal not helping her scepticism. She was one of many who seemed to be anti Labour in the area.
The second day there was a different tactic employed; a member of public was used to help canvas in Ruislip Manor (which falls under the South Ruislip bracket). The woman used was local 60 plus years in age and a very non-threatening easy to talk to woman. The member of public was a local lady who had been helped by Mike Cox when she had problems with her street. The road being canvassed was mainly white middle class, with a few working class houses all or mostly semi-detached. Once again the majority of the roads were Conservative voters, but the Liberal Democrats were in a close second with very few labour supporters. The member of public who was canvassing explained to each person what Mike Cox had done for her. This seemed liked a very good tactic as she explained she wasn’t a politician but someone who was just like them who had been helped out by the candidate Mike Cox in her hour of need. As people rarely discussed policy it meant they could get a local perspective minus the political jargon, something that most people seemed to appreciate. This was a tactic I assume to help the voter understand they would receive help from Mr Cox as there is proof he sticks to his word. Along on this canvassing trail was two local candidates for the ward, both middle aged family people one male and one female. This portrayed very family orientated approach that man of the home owners could relate to. Mr Cox applied the amount of time necessary to each house, in one case even going in for a cup of tea with an elderly woman to discuss what could be done for the local area whilst dunking biscuits into a homemade brew. A lot of family men that were spoken to seemed to have their mind already made up and were choosing to vote conservative, however this did not put off Mr Cox as he still angled for a vote and never left a house without asking to or leaving a Liberal Democrat leaflet. The leaflets, he told me, largely aimed at the local elections but still had a political angle to influence the general elections on the same day.
The day culminated with the majority of leaflets being dropped and a big liberal democrat push in the South Ruislip area.