Kick Boris out of Uxbridge – When Boris Johnson was coming to the tip of his wrecking spell as Mayor of London he determined he wished to confer the identical profit on the nation and step one in that was to turn out to be an MP once more. So within the 2015 election he was elected because the member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, a secure Tory seat on the sting of West London.
He bought roughly the identical proportion of votes – simply over 50% – there in 2017, however the Labour candidate managed to chop his majority significantly, and there have been hopes in 2019 that this pattern may proceed. Sadly it didn’t and Johnson elevated his proportion of the vote by 1.8% whereas the Labour vote went down by a bit of extra.
After Johnson’s resignation the by election there in 2023 was a detailed run factor, with the Tory vote down 7.5% and Labour’s up by 5.6% and the Tory candidate simply scraping in with a majority of 495. Most commentators noticed the outcome as being attributable to the unpopularity of London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ low emission zone extension which was to incorporate the realm later within the yr overcoming the unimaginable unpopularity of the Tory authorities.
However in 2019, many felt Labour had an opportunity in what had for a few years been a secure Tory seat with a stable blue vote of round 50%. And amongst them had been a bunch who known as themselves FCKBoris who got here to marketing campaign there in opposition to him on Saturday sixteenth November 2019.
I went there to {photograph} them and others went to protest with them. Uxbridge is simply round 7 miles from the place I dwell, but it surely isn’t a spot I usually go to, not least as a result of public transport on the perimeters of London isn’t too scorching. There are not any direct hyperlinks and my quickest route is on a bicycle. However I used to be feeling lazy and as a substitute took three buses, with waits at every change. Two years later we now have a sightly sooner service, at the least in principle.
Arriving in Uxbridge I got here throughout a reasonably small group of individuals sporting orange woolly hats and handing out fliers with the message ‘Boris Doesn’t Need You to Vote…’ and telling individuals who weren’t registered the right way to get themselves on the electoral roll.
Just a few of London’s anarchists had travelled out from London to hitch them, bringing posters encouraging individuals to not vote however as a substitute to revolt and a few with images of the Bullingdon Membership and the message ‘FUCK OFF BACK TO ETON’ – Johnson’s old fashioned only some miles away.
There have been only a few different placards and banners, and in addition an open-top bus wth a big banner with the message #KICKBORISOUT from which a hefty sound system pumped out a rhythm that stored most of the campaigners dancing each on the road and on the highest of the bus the place I joined them briefly.
However the effectiveness of the bus was tremendously lowered by the pedestrianisation of a lot of the city centre with an impenetrable one-way system and shortly a police officer got here alongside to inform the driving force very politely that he couldn’t park the place he was. And shortly the bus and protesters set off slowly to march to Brunel College, accompanied by a handful of police.
And it was maybe the college and its college students which was the principle focus of the marketing campaign with the message directed extra at them. Though college students can register to vote each at house and the place they dwell throughout the universtiy time period, relativley few usually trouble to take action. A lot of the messages of this protest had been aime at them, although there have been some posters which could have had a extra normal attraction, similar to one describing Johnson as “UNFAITHFUL, LIAR, SELF-SERVING, WIFE BEATER? DRUNK?” and saying ‘Don’t belief Boris Johnson. Don’t give him your vote‘.
They had been joined at Brunel by a number of extra protesters with posters together with one sporting a rainbow flag and carrying a ‘Queers Towards Boris’ poster and with FUCK BORIS written on her brow,
However in any other case as soon as on the campus it appeared fairly abandoned and other people didn’t know what to do. Lastly they shaped up once more behind the bus which drove off again in the direction of the centre of the city. However I made a decision I’d walked sufficient and sat down at a bus cease for a protracted anticipate a bus to Heathrow the place I may wait once more for a bus house.
Most likely the marketing campaign had little or no affect on the results of the election on twelfth December, the place the Tory marketing campaign was nearly completely on their promise to “Get Brexit Completed”. Johnson’s majority right here was 7,210 and he went on to make the worst of all potential offers we at the moment are affected by, largely due to a Tory conviction that bluster and intransigence is one of the best type of negotiation.
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