Charlotte’s Campaign Blog – General Election 2019 - Charlotte Cornell

The latest from the campaign trail

Should Boris Johnson be ‘Getting on with the Job?’ Elphicke backs the Prime Minister

I was really disappointed to see Natalie Elphicke back Boris Johnson as Prime Minister today. After all the revelations of lies, parties, more lies, more parties. After the disrespect done to all the people who sacrificed freedoms while Number 10 partied. After refusing to take responsibility. After sitting in our…

The Catch-Up Edition: A Week Flew By!

This is the catch-up edition: I’m sorry I haven’t been able to blog in a while. The campaign has been so busy, as the commitments ramped up I really have been campaigning 9am-9pm, squeezing in meals and childcare. When I’ve had dinner, I open up my laptop and answer emails…

Deal Street Stall and Don’t Look (Now) on Facebook!

It is a constant game of ‘Watch-the-weather’ in this winter election. I have 3 weather apps (yes 3!) on my phone and I check them all each evening, scrolling hour by hour and watch projected future clouds zoom by on maps. So far, we’ve been really lucky but every week…

What’s Behind That Door (?) and Labour Manifesto (Hooray!)

The thing about knocking on doors, is that the ones that you think about over and over again when you walk away down the path, aren’t the doors where people say ‘no, thank you’, or the ones where a curtain twitches, but no-one answers, or the ones that shout (doesn’t…

Betteshanger Brunch Club & A Trip to the Panto (I mean Leaders’ Debate)

Monday is intended to be mostly paperwork: finalising Election Addresses, getting postcards artwork to the printers, doing Fadmin (family admin), answering campaign emails from various groups, getting biographies and answering questions from local newspapers (what’s my favourite restaurant in the constituency? What’s my favourite biscuit?). Buy next week’s Dover Gazette…

Mid Campaign Weekend: A chat with Border Force and What’s in a Tilmanstone Pasty?

The weekend kicked off with a super Saturday in Aylesham. I’ve said before on the blog, how much I love this village, but campaigning there again on Saturday brought a whole host of new special moments. There was a nice big team out in Aylesham today (at the same time…

Busy Thursday: Schools, Soup Kitchens, Shepherdswell and [pack some] snacks!

What a fantastic day! I began by catching up with my mum and dad over a cup of tea (they are being amazing helping out with childcare, and to be honest, two weeks into the campaign, I appreciate a cup of tea with people who know me backwards), then a…

Campaign Blog: Elvington, Shepherdswell & Aylesham

An early start this morning as the baby seems to think 4.30am is a perfectly okay time to chat. After a few cups of tea, I decide a walk is better than endless versions of row-row-row your boat, so we walk down to Kingsdown beach and then up the huge…

Armistice Day & Getting Cold in Buckland

A sombre start to the week as on Monday, I attended the Armistice Day service at the Hamilton Road cemetery in Deal. I must get a black coat, my M&S blue coat is my ‘nice’ coat, but too bright for occasions such as this. I risked a paper poppy, even…

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