http://chrisgalley.com This is where we are Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:32:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to my website!  During the General Election I was campaign manager for Guy Opperman, Conservative MP for Hexham. I am also on the Conservative Party's Candidates List. You'll find more details about me here - feel free to look around and send me your comments (they won't appear online in the first instance). The ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/1 Calling all Conservatives! We have an important by election for Newcastle upon Tyne Council coming up, and an Action Day on Saturday 4 June. Meet at the back of Aston House, Redburn Road, Newcastle NE5 1NB at 10 am. It will be a canvassing and leafleting day. Don't hesitate to ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/830 For reasons which will become obvious I have not been able to blog about this before, but on Wednesday I was in court. For the last three years I have been under threat of being sued for an accident that happened at Border Park Rugby Club. A spectator was injured ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/825 What a week, and an outcome no-one predicted. My overseas friends are somewhat surprised that a deal was sorted out so quickly. It took Angela Merkel the best part of 40 days to get her first terms negotiated. One of the few odd moments in our Hexham campaign was a young ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/820 Up at 6 am, and to the terrible news that Wendy Morton had not succeeded in winning Tynemouth. She is a good friend and would have been a wonderful MP. She worked remorselessly in trying to win over the voters, but it simply didn't work out. Other results confirm that ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/801 This is it - Election Day. I go to my polling station to vote at exactly 7 am when it opens. Not surprisingly I am the first voter. It is one of England's smallest polling station in terms of electors, but there are quite a few in that category in ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/798 This is the weekend round up. On Saturday we spent the morning in Ovingham and Wylam, and the afternoon at the top end of Hexham's Beaumont Park. Sundays have been frowned about in Tory circles. I can well remember as a kid seeing Tory campaign calenders with Sundays blocked out with ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/791 One of the things that make elections so interesting is when something happens quickly. Believe or not, the picture shown left was almost a spontaneous demonstration! The back story is that we had planned for Theresa Villiers (Shadow Transport Secretary) to visit us possibly next Monday to talk about the ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/787 On a number of fronts it has been a strange few days. Yesterday I was in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) constituency, which is just over the border from me in Scotland. Currently held by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservative candidate John Lamont is hoping to win the seat, and ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/778 Today I've been campaigning for Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who is standing as the Conservative candidate against Sir Alan Beith in Berwick upon Tweed. This is (like Hexham) a massive constituency, it takes multiple hours to get from one corner to the other. My canvasss and leaflet round was based on the ... http://chrisgalley.com/archives/770