The sun is almost hot, it's time for recreation in the nearby primary school. It's all late November, but it's like being in the spring at the foot of these three social buildings in the Lydstep neighborhood, north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. A handful of volunteers are distributed the prospectuses "Re-elect Anna McMorrin", all red, with the big picture of the Labor MP candidate for re-election for Cardiff North.
This is a constituency "Supermarginale" as British political figures say: from one election to the next, she keeps going from Conservatives to Labor. She is Labor since Anna McMorrin, 48, conquered her in June 2017 to a conservative. In the parliamentary elections of 12 December, however, it risks going back to the other side, less because here people want the Brexit to be finally achieved (on the contrary, the constituency has voted 60.8% to stay in the European Union), but rather because Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Labor, acts as a foil.
At Lydstep, there is Patrick, the group photographic officer, eager to solicit business in the nearby building, Rhidian, who has just finished his physics studies and is a little stressed by his first "door-to-door". door, "and howell, a 72-year-old retired Jeremy fan – this will be the only one we'll meet all day. "And you will discover Cadi, our mascot! " Patrick announces us. Cadi? "It means" pure "in Welsh, it's Anna's bitch, a Cocker Spaniel"says the volunteer. The animal is wonderful to start a conversation with locals.
Undecided or angry people
Notched booties and long down jacket, dynamic and smiling, the member lapped her speech. "You do not want to take back for five years of conservatives? The Tory candidate (Mohamed Ali)he's a Londoner, he does not even live in Cardiff! " she claims, often adding that he "We must finish with the budget cuts of the Tories". When the conversation begins on Europe, Anna insists: "I am a passionate remainer. "
In fact, Anna McMorrin dared to go against Mr. Corbyn's instructions, voting in Westminster for the maintenance of the United Kingdom in the domestic market. And when, like this gentleman who, on the doorstep, tells him that he is voting for Labor "Usual" but who "Hesitant" because "Do not like Corbyn", she replies that at this election it is "For Anna," member, that he has to vote.
