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On the doors in Stoke Central

nintchdbpict000285332230Hoping for another sunny, balmy Saturday was too much to ask for. As Labour’s canvassing teams went door-to-door in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election last week, it was under clear skies and dry weather. Those same teams today went out in biting cold and a snow so desultory it couldn’t be arsed to leave even a light sprinkling. Still, neither work as meteorological metaphors for the reception we found on the doors.

Understandably, a lot of people want to know how it’s going. The bookies more or less have Labour and UKIP level pegging, and despite almost two years of UKIP decline at the polls there are people in the media happy to talk the purples up. Typical of this was Polly Toynbee’s latest missive, which reckoned Labour is hanging on by its finger tips. Perhaps had she done some politics rather than just write about it and joined activists door knocking she would have found a different story. Continue reading →

Nuttall registers ‘home address’ as Stoke house he had never visited

NuttallPaul Nuttall, UKIP’s leader and candidate in the Stoke Central by-election faces serious questions over his eligibility as a candidate, after he revealed to Channel 4’s Michael Crick that he had signed his nomination papers using an address that he did not live in at the time.

Candidates in parliamentary elections are required to sign declaration of nomination forms, in which they are required to state their home address. Paul Nuttall had given his home address as 65 Oxford Street, a small terraced house in Stoke Central.  Continue reading →