{"id":18073,"date":"2019-05-20T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18073"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:29","slug":"unite-ad-campaign-euro-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18073","title":{"rendered":"Stop the far right call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A major advertising campaign aimed at boosting voter turnout to stop the far right in this Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (May 23) European elections is being launched today (May 20) across towns and cities in the North West of England.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign by Unite, will see billboards in 44 locations across Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Liverpool, in addition to full page adverts in the Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News and Metro newspapers. A major national Facebook campaign potentially reaching millions of voters will also be launched.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The union fears that a low turnout on Thursday could allow the likes of far right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, to sneak in and get elected to the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turnout in the last European elections in the North West was 33 per cent and in 2009, with turnout just below 32 per cent, Nick Griffin, the former leader of the far right BNP was elected with little more than 8 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Keep them out. Get out and vote Labour,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 adverts feature various slogans, including \u00e2\u20ac\u0098we will fight them at the ballot box\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 which invokes Winston Churchill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous \u00e2\u20ac\u0098we will fight them on beaches\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 quote. The adverts can be viewed online by clicking here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There will be a photo opportunity at Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Liverpool office, Jack Jones House, 2 Churchill Way, L3 8EF at 10:30am today (May 20), where the adverts will be unveiled on a giant ad van.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe only winners of a low turnout in this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s European elections will be the likes of Yaxley-Lennon and those that seek to divide our communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wonder \u00e2\u20ac\u0098if only I had voted\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 when the results are in. Make sure the tolerance and respect that runs through the communities of the North West is the winner by using your vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bStop those seeking to use these elections to gain a platform to spread their message of fear and hate by getting out to vote to stop the far right and voting Labour this Thursday.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major advertising campaign aimed at boosting voter turnout to stop the far right in this Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (May 23) European elections is being launched today (May 20) across towns and cities in the North West of England. &nbsp; The campaign by Unite, will see billboards in 44 locations across Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Liverpool, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[486,563,1178,952],"wps_subtitle":"Unite launches advertising campaign to boost turnout in Euro elections","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25276,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions\/25276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}