Organising online, mobilising offline

Labour By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Last night, with LGBT Labour, London Young Labour and the Young Fabians, LabourList co-hosted a hugely successful debate watch party, with over 100 people joining us in London.

We were joined by Labour’s general secretary Ray Collins, Chris Bryant and Harriet Harman – who took the opportunity to launch Labour’s LGBT manifesto. Both Chris Bryant and Harriet Harman criticised Chris Grayling’s views on gay rights in B&Bs and said the Tory shadow home secretary should be sacked.

We also took Labour’s message out to people in Soho, before making hundreds of calls to voters in Tooting.

Here are some photos from the event:

Canvass

Canvass Harman

LGBT Manifesto

Phone Bank

Debate Bingo

Debate Watch

Alex Smith

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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