| 15 May 2017 |
 Grebehead | Labour candidate's position on Brexit is: http://www.canterburylabour.org.uk/?s=brexit | 10:00:10 |
 Thea | The trouble with brexit is that it's not as much of a force for vote movement as one would expect | 10:01:38 |
| Grebehead | I agree. I'm a passionate remainer and I'm disappointed with the level of apathy. | 10:03:03 |
| Grebehead | However, that coupled with the stats was enough to make me change party and campaign for the Lib Dems. | 10:03:39 |
| Grebehead | Plus the Labour candidate has never run for elected office before, whereas the Lib Dem guy has been a councillor for years and is very well connected both locally and in Westminster. | 10:04:22 |
| Thea | I agree with you - I don't think it's helpful having differing tactical vote results across different websites | 10:04:52 |
| Thea | the progressive alliance and stop the tori.es showing labour | 10:05:35 |
| Grebehead | I don't think the PA group know that they are being played by the local Labour lot. I've written to them this morning. | 10:06:46 |
| Grebehead | Have you got a link for stopthe tories? | 10:06:56 |
| Thea | https://stopthetori.es/canterbury | 10:07:18 |
| Grebehead | I think that's where the PA got their opinion from - as it's based entirely on the 2015 election result - which is misleading. | 10:08:40 |
| Grebehead | I need to write to them now! | 10:08:45 |
| Grebehead | Did I mention that Ukip have stood down and are backing Brazier - which means Conservatives (including councillors) are moving to the Lib Dems. | 10:13:21 |
| Thea | I need to add all the UKIP stand downs, it's very bad news | 10:16:42 |
| Thea | ironically | 10:16:47 |
| Thea | some might be made of them backing Conservatives though - by association | 10:17:29 |
| Grebehead | Yes, but there are Conservative councillors coming over to the Lib Dems in Canterbury because of it. | 10:18:20 |
| Grebehead | Also, did I mention the University of Kent - The European University as they style themselves. They won't be happy with Rosie Duffield's volte-face on Brexit | 10:19:16 |
| Thea | There's a lot to be said for just getting the student vote out | 10:19:43 |
| Thea | Not campaigning up until after the 22nd May and before that just getting them to register | 10:20:05 |
| Grebehead | I'm doing exactly that. I'm running a reasonably well resourced digital campaign to mobilise students. | 10:21:32 |
| Thea | cool | 10:21:39 |
| Thea | also might be worth getting people from faversham where it's pretty hopeless to campaign in canterbury | 10:23:27 |
| Thea | am sure you have already thought of that though | 10:23:48 |
| Grebehead | I'm just sending you a letter in the local paper from a former Labour councillor who has moved to the Lib Dems too. | 10:24:05 |
| Grebehead | 
Download lib-dems-oppositon.JPG | 10:25:42 |
| Grebehead | There's one more local factor that's worth sharing. The local hospital may be downgraded again. It lost its A&E under Labour a few years ago. There are 5,000 NHS staff in the south east who are EU nationals. The Tories and Labour voted against guaranteeing their status. The hospital trust are blaming recruitment issue as a reason for taking services away from the hospital. The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the area - the Brexit issue is very important to them and now that further cuts are possible a lot of old resentment towards Labour has been stirred up again. | 10:31:41 |
| 27 Aug 2017 |
|  Matthew changed their display name from Matthew to Matthew|away. | 21:07:00 |
| 6 Sep 2017 |
| Matthew changed their display name from Matthew|away to Matthew. | 07:17:16 |
| 29 Sep 2017 |
| Matthew changed their profile picture. | 11:56:24 |
