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THE SAFE SEAT CAMPAIGN - A YEAR ON

REFLECTIONS ON #GE2019 2020 has been a tough old year, but as we reach the end of it, I’ve been reflecting on activism, and what we did a year ago in 2019 for the UK General Election. I think perhaps as the world is so changed during 2020 we should be reminded that activism is a brilliant thing, and that we  can  change things with hope and effort. Or at least I think we can… because we did. At least a bit.  #NOPETOCHOPE chairs at Mudeford Quay, Photo by Jimmy Young FIFTY CHAIRS Last year, we mounted a non-party political campaign on a tiny-budget and it involved chairs. A lot of chairs. Fifty to be exact. Our campaign morphed from the small idea of placing a symbolic ‘safe seat’ in the centre of the principal town in our constituency of Christchurch, into a huge multi-part political artwork, played out over a whole constituency with  hundreds  of participants.    Christchurch, on the South Coast of the UK, has been for many years the safest Conservative Seat in the UK, meaning that ou

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1. VOTE CHAIRFULLY

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2. LOVE WILL CHAIR US APART

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6. DON'T LET CHRISTCHURCH BE A SAFE SEAT

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