After Arnold returned to Johannesburg, he did not rush to the National Party headquarters. Instead, he went with Owen to the Liberal Party headquarters to learn from the experience.
Neither Rock nor Owen could refuse such a request. Just learn it. I'm afraid Arnold still doesn't understand that some things can't be learned just by imitating a tiger. The National Party wants to be as good as the Liberal Party.
, first of all, it must be backed by 20,000 Chinese Americans with voting rights, so as to attract more neutral voters.
Otherwise, the National Party will only attract careerists who cannot succeed in the Liberal Party.
"In the past week, more than a hundred party members have quit to join the National Party. Arnold promised them that he could help them run for parliament. However, these people probably ignored one issue. In the current situation of the National Party, what can the National Party do?
The number of parliamentary seats obtained should be very limited, so there is a high probability that Arnold's promise will not be fulfilled." Irving didn't say anything on the surface, but in fact he still complained.
"It doesn't matter. These people are political speculators. They will come back after the election." Roque is not in a hurry. The way to join a party now is very simple. Just fill in a form. There is no recommendation, no political review, and even basic knowledge.
There is no review, so it is normal to join or quit the party.
"Don't even think about it. Even if they want to come back, the Liberal Party will not re-accept us. What do we think of us? A hotel!" Owen was still angry. He didn't know whether it was directed at Arnold or the party members who had withdrawn.
Luo Ke laughed out loud. Arnold thought he had a trick, and Luo Ke was not stupid. Many of these party members who deserted the party were deliberately arranged by Xia Jiu. The National Party was so hungry that it was really a blessing to take all these people in.
Disaster is unpredictable.
"But this is also a good thing. The Liberal Party is developing too fast. Many people join the Liberal Party for reasons other than pure. Some people do it to protect their own interests, and some just want to get ahead. Now these people have left the Liberal Party. I am grateful to Arnold. He is doing this.
Help us purify our team, we should send a banner to the National Party." Roque was very relaxed. The Liberal Party now has nearly 30,000 party members. In the entire Johannesburg, 99% of those with voting rights are Liberals. As for the National Party,
In terms of manpower, it would be good to get one or two seats in the future parliament.
According to the rules of the Electoral Commission, one member will be elected for every thousand people with voting rights. Based on this calculation, the size of the Johannesburg Parliament is about 30 people.
If calculated according to the current situation, the Liberal Party will have 29 or all seats in the future parliament. Other parties will have no chance at all. Therefore, those who feel that they cannot get ahead in the Liberal Party and quit to join the National Party will probably
Chances are he won't be able to get ahead in the National Party.
"Whatever they want, I will go to Pretoria in a few days." Owen is also a ruthless character. The National Party has always believed that Pretoria is the National Party's back garden, and Owen is now going to set the National Party's backyard on fire.
"You can't leave Johannesburg at this time and arrange for others to handle it. You, the chairman, don't have to do everything personally." Roque refused to let Owen leave. Now that the election has begun to enter a critical period, the impact of Owen's departure at this time is still a bit big.
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With only three months left before the general election, both the Liberal Party and the National Party began to build momentum on the streets at the same time. The Liberal Party's campaign was so powerful that the National Party was somewhat dwarfed by it.
In fact, the Liberal Party also has an advantage in Pretoria. Before the National Party was established, the Liberal Party had already opened a branch in Pretoria. There are also more than a hundred people with voting rights in Pretoria.
Eighty percent of them joined the Liberal Party. If you add in the advantage of Johannesburg, even if it is magnified to the entire Transvaal, the Liberal Party's advantage is still unshakable, and the National Party is destined to be the companion.
"Now I begin to understand why you don't like elections. Elections are really expensive. We have spent more than 10,000 pounds on publicity in more than a month. In the next few months, the cost will continue.
What’s even more despairing is that such an election happens every four years. This thing is really a toy for the rich.” Irving couldn’t help but sigh. In the past, Irving firmly believed that the democratic representative system was a good medicine for the world. Now, now
This idea also began to waver.
"More than that, this is just an election in Johannesburg. The elections in Transvaal have not started yet. They are also held once a year. If the Union of South Africa is established in the future, the cost of elections will also be more." Rock's words simply made Owen angry.
despair.
"Then we don't have to do anything all year round. Every day's work is elections, elections, elections!" Irving finally lost his composure. If it really happened like Rock said, it would be a disaster.
Roque reluctantly spread his hands. Although everyone knows the shortcomings of the democratic representative system, this is the reality.
As the election date approaches, the streets of Johannesburg are becoming more and more lively.
Elections are indeed a very magical thing. In the past, in Johannesburg, the Liberal Party had almost no sense of existence. The vast majority of Liberal Party members did not even know where the headquarters of the Liberal Party was.
The National Party still attaches great importance to propaganda work. In order to increase its influence, the National Party unfurls banners on the streets, sets up fixed propaganda booths, and distributes free promotional materials to citizens. If you are willing to join the National Party on the spot, there are even gifts. These actions are indeed
It confuses many people who don't know the truth. Those who don't know the details think that the National Party is the largest party in Johannesburg.
The Liberal Party is forced to face the challenge. Whether it is in terms of human resources or economic strength, the Liberal Party is far superior to the National Party. Therefore, as soon as the Liberal Party starts to build momentum, the National Party cannot hold on.
Now Roque's men are very mature. Roque's men do not need to arrange many things. Roque's men act spontaneously.
So every day, many people join the National Party for the small gifts given by the National Party.
In fact, none of them are valuable things. Soap, cans, eggs, apples, etc. Even the most expensive cans are not worth more than five shillings.
But mosquito legs are also meat. In line with the mentality of being cheap and not making money, many people join the National Party every day.
Then we wait for the propagandists of the National Party to close their stalls at night and make statistics. It is this group of people who join the National Party every day.
The only strange thing is that the procedure for joining the party these days is too simple. You can join the party by filling out a form, and you don't even need any procedures to quit the party. The National Party doesn't have a computer or anything, so it can't identify in time who is filling out the form every day, so
The method of giving small gifts only appeared for a few days and then was discontinued.
There is no way, with the National Party's financial resources, it really can't afford it. The Liberal Party is backed by the Johannesburg Mining Union and has sufficient funds. The National Party has nothing, and the funds are all dug out from the teeth.
, comparing financial resources to the Liberal Party?
You have to be crazy to do this!
The National Party cannot be induced to gain benefits and competes with conventional propaganda methods. The National Party is still beaten by the Liberal Party.
With such a small manpower, the National Party can only carry out propaganda in a limited number of locations in Johannesburg with relatively concentrated traffic.
After the Liberal Party began to exert its efforts, its propaganda work followed the National Party's lead. The National Party set up a propaganda point at the train station, and the Liberal Party set up two at the train station, surrounding the National Party's propaganda points. The National Party's propaganda personnel responded to this
They were very dissatisfied, so one day at the end of May, a conflict broke out between the propagandists of the National Party and the propagandists of the Liberal Party in the square in front of the train station.
The cause of the conflict was very simple. When a Liberal Party propagandist was distributing promotional materials to a white girl, he complimented the white girl. Then he naturally became the white girl's tour guide and offered to take the white girl to Ziwei.
town.
This white girl was pretty, but the National Party propagandist next to her probably didn't like her, so she said something sour.
As a result, a conflict occurred.
A dozen Liberal Party propagandists and seven or eight National Party propagandists were in a group.
Not all propagandists of the Liberal Party participated in the war, and some of them even did not forget their work during the fight and continued to distribute materials to people around them.
When the police arrived, seven or eight National Party propagandists had been beaten with bruises and bruises. Fortunately, the Liberal Party staff did not use any instruments, otherwise the National Party staff would have been even worse.
There are indeed weapons, but the National Party propagandists probably don’t know that there are weapons in the Liberal Party’s propaganda points. This is approved by the Johannesburg Police Department. The Liberal Party is a cooperative agency of the Johannesburg Police Department.
"It was those people from the National Party who took action first. This gentleman and I just chatted for a few words, and they said some ugly things. Then this gentleman's colleagues spoke up and those people became angry. That's what happened." The girl did not take advantage of it.
He left in disorder and had a sense of justice and was willing to testify.
"Okay, thank you for your cooperation. If possible, can you go to the police station to supplement a formal transcript? If your trip is delayed, the police station will compensate you. Are you here to travel? Police Station
We can send a car to take you anywhere you want to go in the Johannesburg area." The offer given by the police sergeant was really something the girl couldn't refuse.
"Of course, I'm happy to!" The girl didn't know whether it was because she really had a strong sense of justice, or she was attracted by the police chief's uniform, and there were little stars in her eyes.
Just out of sight of the girl, the Liberal Party staff member who wanted to be her tour guide just now looked resentful.
The sergeant didn't talk nonsense, and with a wave of his hand, he took everyone back to the police station.
The girl was riding a three-wheel motorcycle driven by the police chief himself.
Back at the police station, the results came out quickly. All those involved in the fight had to be punished. As the first provocation and the first to strike, the National Party propagandists were each detained for a week and fined five pounds.
Liberal Party propagandists involved in the conflict were each detained for 12 hours and fined one pound.
