#UnseatIDS festival in Chingford & Woodford Green

From Faiza Shaheen, Labour candidate for MP in Chingford & Woodford Green: Please come join us for the Unseat IDS weekend with Owen Jones and special guests on Sat 15 & Sun 16 September. We’d value any time you can give us, and don’t worry if you’ve never done door-knocking for Labour before… there will be a training session and lots of old timers to advise! Let’s make this huge!!!

[Go to Facebook event page…]

There’s an event to unseat Boris Johnson and hundreds of people are going

From The Independent: Hundreds of people are planning to attend an event campaigning for Boris Johnson to be unseated from his west London constituency. The event, which was set up by campaigner and columnist Owen Jones, is set to take place in the Foreign Secretary’s Uxbridge & South Ruislip seat.

[Read article on Independent website…] [Go to Facebook event…]

Tories call for ‘help’ as Labour begins campaign to unseat Iain Duncan Smith in Chingford

From East London & West Essex Guardian: The Conservatives are calling for “help” as over 500 Labour supporters prepare to launch their campaign to unseat Iain Duncan Smith

According to a letter, believed to be from the local Tory association, the MP is preparing himself for a fight from the “hordes of Momentum”.

While IDS increased his vote share by 1.2 per cent at last month’s general election (helped by UKIP not standing) his 2015 majority fell from 8,386 to 2,438. Read more

Join your party

If it’s your bag, you can sign up to campaign directly for one of the progressive parties, by signing up directly on their website. Here are the volunteering links:

There might also be actions in your area (most especially if you live in a marginal constituency) by the Progressive Alliance campaign.

How to help the Liberal Democrats win

From Mark Pack’s blog: There’s never been a better moment to help the Liberal Democrats (or help a little bit more) than right now. Here then are a few ways you can do just that.

On Facebook? Sign up to this event to show that you are voting Liberal Democrat. It’s a really simple way of spreading the word about how many people are voting Liberal Democrat this time. Having people see that their friends are voting Lib Dem is a powerful way of helping to persuade them to do so too.

You may already be in touch with your local Liberal Democrats, but otherwise, there’s this simple form on the national website.

You can find the party here (Twitter) and here (Facebook), whilst leader Tim Farron is here (Twitter) and here (Facebook). For a bit of extra sass, there’s the Liberal Democrat Press Team or for a mix of unofficial news, there’s Lib Dem Newswire.

[Read more on Mark Pack’s blog…]