Evening update 30.04.15: A signed poster of the man himself
PARTY WITH MAAJID
WITH seven days to go, Liberal Democrat candidate Maajid Nawaz asks supporters for ‘fighting fund’ donations in Hampstead and Kilburn. There’s spectacular treats for those who do. OK, so a fiver will only get you a “virtual high five”, but up it to score and £20 leads to a poster of Maajid “hand-signed by the man himself”. Members of the Maajidfandom can access his post-election party with £50, but the dinner will be in the donor’s honour if they give the top whack of £500.
THE BILL FOR THE BALLOT
DOES holding a council by-election on the same day as the general election really come at no extra cost to the tax-payer? That’s the claim from the Conservatives, who have triggered the local ballot in Hampstead Town ward on May 7 with their parliamentary candidate Simon Marcus stepping down from the council. The no expense pledge was made in Simon’s farewell letter to residents and one of ward candidate Oliver Cooper’s leaflets. To see if this was definitely the case, the council’s election officers were asked under the Freedom of Information request if there had been any costs the last time a local by-election happened on the same day as a wider ballot. That would take us back to the London elections of May 2012 when Labour caused a by-election with the resignation of Councillor Thomas Neumark. The extra bill for the local poll: £6,800.
TWEETS
Natalie Bennett live tweets Ed Miliband’s appearance on the Question Time special
#bbcqt Miliband: “I’m the 1st Labour leader going into an election saying spending in key areas is going to fall” #austerian #whataboast
— Natalie Bennett (@natalieben) April 30, 2015
Olde Ye Lib Dem posters in Kilburn
Good to see our 2014 posters still up in Kilburn @jamesrobking @theGladstonian pic.twitter.com/Ex7PB3cdNn — Janet Grauberg (@JGrauberg) April 22, 2015
But it’s not all orange in Gospel Oak
Conflicted household in Holborn and St Pancras pic.twitter.com/myIfGhmmKy
— Nick Eardley (@nickeardley) April 30, 2015
Richard Osley 
I’d like a Maajid poster to remind me about the party that dreamed up Mansion Tax, and then tried to blame it in on Labour during the Hampstead interview on BBC News.
His argument was that he & the Lib Dems simply want to increase the Council Tax Bands, big mistake Mr Nawaz the people of H&K are not stupid you’ll be robbing people just the same as Tulips & Milliband!!!
They never forgive you.
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