Saturday 9 April
Day 4. Reg is at home, I'm at home clearing my diary for the next four
weeks, Bob Clay is in the new office waiting for the BT engineer. Meanwhile
campaigners are out leafleting and canvassing and there's still a bitter
wind blowing.
I'm getting a lot of calls from the foreign press - no votes there of course
- as well as the locals and nationals. What I'm saying to them all is that
we're running a serious campaign with a full voter canvass. This campaign is
is not a gimmick, it's not a token campaign, and Reg is a serious candidate.
And although there are no votes in foreign media coverage, Reg realises he
is part of a wider movement against the war on Iraq and that what happens
here could be vitally important to Bush/Blair policy. He is going
head-to-head with the leader of the world's second most important (in terms
of US foreign policy at least) country and the rest of the world is very
interested in what will happen.
Like Margaret Cook, I salute his courage. Reg is not a politician, but, as
Martin Bell said, he is what a politician should be, straightforward,
decent, intelligent, caring and industrious. He is also a man who has
recently experienced the greatest loss a parent can imagine, the loss of a
child, and has chosen to deal with it by entering the often ruthless and
nasty world of politics.
Jane Mayes
Keys for Sedgefield Campaign
07748 640 183
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