Thursday 9 June 2016

Battlebus Constituencies part four

Continuing from the last part (Earlier parts are linked to at the top of there because I'm idle)

Carrying on


Lincoln 
reported in the Mirror and here's a Photograph of them campaigning



Morecambe & Lunesdale
another constituency with a large number of photos, Here's one example.



Northampton North
And another, this constituency seemed to be the core of a publicity blitz  so lots of pictures


Nuneaton
and another 


Oxford West & Abingdon 
This constituency is reported as being under Police Investigation, However I can find no trace of any mention of them being there during the Short campaign, However, in a Spectator article In February  the following appears " Blackwood isn’t taking this for granted. She is canvassing three times a week, twice on Saturdays. Conservative HQ are sending in frequent delegations from #RoadTrip2015 to help campaign. On the doorstep, convincing sceptical Liberal Democrat voters is the biggest challenge but one Blackwood is tackling. By focusing on the core issues in the constituency — instead of building a media profile — she is hoping that her track record will persuade those still sceptical of voting Tory." You have to question if this would suddenly stop when the Short campaign began. However a reason why it is possible that there is No roadtrip in that period is that there would be  a large number of Conservative Voting students already in the area, so the Roadtip people were not necessary.



Plymouth Sutton & Devonport 
Reported in Mirror Here's one of many photos



Portsmouth N 
Reported Police Investigation
Portsmouth S 
Reported Police Investigation

There is a suggestion that this is the result of confusion. According to National receipts, one of the regional battlebuses was scheduled to be based in Southampton.


Pudsey 
Here is a picture of campaigners in Pudsey with a bus





Rochester & Strood 
Reported as being under investigation by Police, this is a seat where  a By-election took place the previous year, and all the links and pictures seem to point back at this earlier campaign, so Unless there is something out there that we haven't come across, this is another that will appear to turn out in the not column. However as  a large effort had been put in to regain the seat six months earlier, it would not be surprising to find that the party was putting an effort into keeping it and so to find a blue bus visiting.



Rossendale & Darwen  
Mentioned by Channel 4 here's a picture of Bus and campaigners on site


More to come in next part.

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