🏛️ Face-to-Face at the Town Hall

Two years ago, I launched my first website—and with it, a mission: to keep face-to-face interaction alive in a world that’s going fully digital. Since the site focused on community, nature, and our local pathways, I knew I’d need to timestamp things not just online, but in-person.

And where better to start than with a politician?

🔴 Red Party? Easy!

Now I’ll give credit where it’s due—the red party in Birkenhead have always been easy to find. They’ve got a proper office where you can walk in and actually see a representative. That means a lot in today’s world. Face-to-face matters.

But try the other colours… and it’s not so easy.

💚 My Hunt for the Greens

Since my site had so much to do with nature and local greenery, I set my sights on meeting someone from the Green Party. They were visible in the community—I’d even seen some of them at a local quiz night. But getting a formal sit-down? That was another story.

I tracked down their HQ, which turned out to be the stunning Hamilton Square building (one of the most highly rated in the country—seriously, go see it!).

I walked in, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, hoping for a meeting… but no luck. “No one available to see you,” I was told. Again. And again.

💡 The Cheeky Sit-Down

Still, I wasn’t giving up that easily. On one visit, I casually mentioned I had a sore hip and asked to sit for five minutes. While sitting there—like fate—a Green Party member I recognised from quiz night walked in. Boom! Ten-minute meeting secured. And just like that, a face-to-face timestamp for my site was made.

⏳ Analytics Rise, So Did I

A year later, as the site’s analytics started to grow, I returned—same mission, same cheeky persistence. And yes, it took many more visits, but eventually I got another face-to-face meeting. Because sometimes fate hits us in the face. ; )

🎨 Why I Call Them Colours

Why do I call the parties by their colours? Because that’s how we recognise them. Red is Labour, Yellow is Lib Dem, Blue is Conservative, and so on. It’s colour-coded in our minds already. But here’s where it gets more poetic…

🌈 The House of the Rainbow

Whether you’re the Prime Minister with a big majority or the MP from a tiny village with just two votes—you all have to sit down and listen to the Speaker. No exceptions.

In that moment, every colour blends together. In my eyes, Parliament becomes a rainbow—a mix of people, ideas, and voices all working (mostly!) toward a better UK.

The Speaker keeps them in check, sure—but that mix, that noise, that shared responsibility… it’s our rainbow. And that rainbow has shaped our language, our culture, and made the UK one of the most respected places for democracy and dialogue.

🪑 A Chair for the Wirral

There’s a little chair in that rainbow house that belongs to the Wirral. Who gets to sit there? We decide. It’s us—our community—that sends someone to speak for us.

And ultimately, every seat in that house is filled by choices made in local communities like ours.

🤝 So Let’s Keep It Face-to-Face

Let’s meet. Let’s talk. Let’s garden. Let’s clean. Let’s quiz, question, laugh, and keep our areas brighter, cleaner, and more respectable.

Let’s do it face to face.

Let’s go!