We ran a Socialist Campaign to Stop the Tories and Fascists stall at the Angel, Islington, on Saturday 3 April.
We got a positive response from the big majority of those who stopped the talk, and a couple of people leaving contact details for further news about the campaign. Some passers-by asked how they could register to vote.
One young man was indignant: "Don't you think it's time for a change?", but turned out not to be a Tory loyalist after all, and open to discussion.
Islington being that sort of place, we had some unusual passers-by - two Maoists, with both of whom however we got reasonable discussions after their first indignation at anyone voting Labour, and a Spartacist, who didn't pause to talk - and on the other side of the road there was a stall run by the Revolutionary Communist Group calling on people not to vote at all (or at least not to vote for "any of the main parties").
We had a special SCSTF leaflet for the Islington South constituency, written by a Climate Camp activist living in the area who's keen on the campaign's message.
We had a paste table, and nearby railings, displaying the SCSTF poster; the basic SCSTF statement; the SCSTF anti-BNP leaflet; and the trade-union petition against cuts.
We brought a loudhailer. It wasn't as helpful as I hoped, because I think these days, on busy streets, people just "screen out" loudhailer speech (and if the person with the loudhailer is too close to the stall, it may have the effect of "shouting people away" from the stall). But we will bring one again next time, being sure to keep the loudhailer a small distance from the stall.
One or two of us went to the nearby pedestrian crossing to sell the socialist paper Solidarity. That turned out to be a good way of bringing people to the stall, and of selling papers (I sold seven in half an hour).