Training

 

This is the reason I wasn't at the Gateshead Lib Dem action day on Sunday. I was at a Lib Dem training session instead. It wasn't a long trip for me to get to the meeting. It was at Sunniside Social Club which is only a few minutes' walk from my house. A useful day for me to dust down some of my campaigning skills and learn new ones.

There were inevitable discussions about the political situation on our home patches. I was told about the Labour retreat in Newcastle where it appears Labour are seriously fighting only a handful of wards. "Seriously" could be described as an over exaggeration.  The situation in Gateshead is similar. There seems to be no central direction or organisation by Labour in Gateshead. Wards are left to get on with their own campaigning and in most wards Labour's campaigning is zilch.