Thread by @CllrOliver

One thing heard during our campaign in #TivertonandHoniton:

“Why do you liberals leaflet SO MUCH? THINK OF THE PLANET!”

Hear it 4, 5, or 6 times during a 200 leaflet round and it starts to get to your volunteers…

But let’s do a bit of number crunching…
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Over the last 3ish months, @LibDems delivered 800,000 bits of paper across #TivertonandHoniton

Sounds a lot, right? It was. It took a gargantuan effort from 1,000s of dedicated volunteers

BUT…
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Let’s compare those numbers with the hate-filled rag that is the Daily Mail

Last available normal figures (pre-Covid) show the DM printing 980,000 copies per day. At 144 pages per copy that’s 141 million pages (141,120,000 to be precise

PER DAY!
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Now, if we’re to have any chance of counteracting the bilious and divisive narrative that is projectile vomited out of this daily paper we need to… you guessed it: LEAFLET!

And leaflet. And leaflet. And leaflet.
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And 800,000 leaflets over the course of our campaign in #TivertonandHoniton is equivalent to 0.5% of the paper the Daily Mail uses every. single. day.

So, no - we shouldn’t feel bad for leafleting in huge numbers. It’s how we win elections to bring about a better country!
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