UK Launches ONE Vote
David Cole from ONE’s UK office writes about the country’s party conferences and the launch of their ONE Vote campaign (very similar to what we did in the US around the 2008 presidential election. The launch was also a chance to celebrate 1GOAL, which you can read more about here.
Last week ONE was at the Labour Party conference, where we held an event to launch our ONE Vote campaign as well as celebrating 1GOAL and the fact that the football World Cup will be held in Africa for the first time ever next year.
We were lucky to be joined by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who spoke about the issues. Two footballers also spoke, South African captain Aaron Mokoena and John Utaka, who plays for Nigeria and Portsmouth. They were followed by Glenys Kinnock, Minister for Europe, and Douglas Alexander, the Minister for International Development.
The ONE team is now in Manchester for the Conservative Party Conference, which started earlier this week, and we’re getting ready to host a reception this evening. We’ll be blogging more about the event soon so please stay tuned.
-David Cole
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