When Arnold returned to Johannesburg, he did not rush to the National Party headquarters, but went with Owen to the Freedom Party headquarters to learn from the experience.

For such a request, Roque and Owen can't refuse, just learn, I'm afraid Arnold still doesn't understand now, some things really can't be learned by painting a tiger and a cat, and if the National Party wants to achieve the level of the Liberal Party, it must first have 20,000 Chinese Americans with voting rights as a backing, so as to attract more neutral voters.

Otherwise, the National Party will only attract careerists who cannot make it to the Liberal Party.

"In the past week, more than 100 party members have quit joining the National Party, and Arnold promised them that he could help them run for parliament, but these people probably ignored a problem, in the current situation of the National Party, the number of seats that the National Party can obtain in parliament should be very limited, so Arnold's promise is likely not to be fulfilled." Owen didn't say anything on the surface, but in fact he still complained.

"It doesn't matter, these people are political opportunists, and after the election, they will come back." Luo Ke is not in a hurry, the way to join the party now is very simple, just fill out a form casually, there is no recommendation, no political review, and there is not even a basic review, so it is normal to join the party and leave the party.

"Don't think, even if they want to come back, the Liberals won't re-admit, when what are we? Hostel! Owen was still angry, and he didn't know if it was against Arnold or the party members who quit.

Roque laughed off his big teeth, Arnold thought he had a plan, Roque was not stupid, many of these party members who left the party were deliberately arranged by Xia Jiu, and the national party was hungry and did not choose food, and it was really a blessing and a curse to take all these people into it.

"But this is also a good thing, the Liberal Party is developing too fast, many people join the Liberal Party for the purpose of not being simple, some people are to protect their own interests, some people just want to get ahead, now these people have left the Liberal Party, I am grateful to Arnold, he is helping us to purify the team, we should send a pennant to the National Party." Roque is very relaxed, the Liberal Party now has nearly 30,000 members, and in the whole of Johannesburg, 99 percent of the voting rights are Liberals, and it would be good for the National Party to get one or two seats in the future parliament.

According to the Election Commission, there is one MP for every 1,000 people with the right to vote, so the size of the Johannesburg Parliament is about 30.

If calculated according to the current situation, then the Liberal Party will have 29 seats in the future parliament, or all of them, and the other parties will not have any chance at all, so those who feel that they cannot get ahead in the Liberal Party and withdraw from joining the National Party will most likely not be able to get ahead in the National Party.

"Whatever they want, I'll be in Pretoria in a few days." Owen is also ruthless, the National Party has always considered Pretoria to be the backyard of the National Party, and Owen is now going to set the National Party's backyard on fire.

"You can't leave Johannesburg at this time, arrange for someone else to do it, and you, the chairman, don't have to do everything." Roque didn't let Owen leave, and now that the election has begun to enter a critical period, Owen is leaving at this time, and the impact is still a bit big.

With only three months to go until the start of the general election, the Liberal Party and the National Party are both building momentum in the streets at the same time, and the Liberal Party's campaign is huge, and the National Party is somewhat dwarfed.

In fact, the Liberal Party also has an advantage in Pretoria, when the National Party was not established, the Liberal Party has already opened a branch in Pretoria, and more than 80% of the people who have the right to vote in Pretoria have also joined the Liberal Party.

"I'm starting to understand why you don't like elections, they are so expensive, we've spent more than 10,000 pounds on propaganda in the past month, and the cost will continue to increase in the next few months, and what's even more desperate is that elections like this have to happen every four years, and this thing is really a rich man's toy." Owen couldn't help but sigh that Owen had previously believed that democratic representation was the cure, but now this idea has begun to waver.

"Not only that, it's just Johannesburg's election, the Transvaal election hasn't started yet, it's also once a year, and if the South African Federation is formed in the future, then the cost of the election will be just as much." Roque's words simply made Owen desperate.

"Then we don't have to do anything all year round, our daily work is elections, elections, elections!" Owen finally lost his temper, and it would have been a disaster, as Roque had said.

Roque had no choice but to spread his hands, although everyone knows the disadvantages of democratic representative system, but this is the reality.

As the election date approaches, the streets of Johannesburg are getting livelier.

Elections are a magical thing, and in Johannesburg, the Liberal Party had almost no existence, and the vast majority of Liberal Party members did not even know where the Liberal Party headquarters were.

In order to increase its influence, the National Party pulls banners on the streets, sets up fixed propaganda booths, distributes propaganda materials to citizens free of charge, and even gives gifts if they are willing to join the National Party on the spot.

The Liberal Party was forced to face the battle, whether in terms of human resources or economic strength, the Liberal Party surpassed the National Party by much more, so as soon as the Liberal Party began to build momentum, the National Party immediately could not hold on.

Now that Roque's subordinates are also very mature, many things do not need to be arranged by Roque, and Roque's subordinates act spontaneously.

So every day, many people join the National Party for those small gifts given by the National Party.

Soap, cans, eggs, apples, etc., even the most expensive cans are worth no more than five shillings.

But mosquito legs are also meat, and in line with the psychology of being cheap and not making bastards, many people join the National Party every day.

Then, when the propagandists of the National Party closed their stalls in the evening, they found that it was these people who joined the National Party every day.

It's just strange, the procedure for joining the party is too simple these days, you can join the party by filling out a form, you don't even need any program to quit the party, and the national party doesn't have a computer or anything, so it can't be identified in time who are filling out the form every day, so the way of giving small gifts has only been stopped in just a few days.

There is no way, with the financial resources of the National Party, it is really unaffordable, the Liberal Party has the Johannesburg Mining Union as the backing, and the funds are very sufficient, but the National Party has nothing, and that little money is pulled out of the teeth, and the Liberal Party compares financial resources?

It's crazy to do that!

Unable to induce them to take advantage of the conventional propaganda methods, the National Party is still beaten all over the ground by the Liberal Party.

With such a small number of people, the National Party can only carry out propaganda in a limited number of high-traffic locations in the city of Johannesburg.

After the Liberal Party began to exert its strength, the propaganda work followed the National Party, and the National Party set up one propaganda point at the railway station, and the Liberal Party set up two propaganda points at the railway station, surrounding the propaganda points of the National Party on the left and right, and the propaganda personnel of the National Party were very dissatisfied with this, so one day at the end of May, the propaganda personnel of the National Party and the propaganda personnel of the Liberal Party finally broke out in the square in front of the railway station.

The cause of the conflict was very simple, a Liberal Party propagandist gave a few words of praise to a white girl when he distributed propaganda materials to a white girl, and then naturally became the white girl's tour guide and offered to take the white girl to Ziwei Town.

This white girl is very beautiful, and the propagandist of the National Party next to her probably didn't like it, so he said a few words sourly.

As a result, there was a conflict.

A dozen Liberal Party propagandists and seven or eight National Party propagandists mingled.

Not all of the Liberal propagandists went to war, and some of them continued to distribute information to the people around them, even when they were fighting.

By the time the police arrived, seven or eight of the Nationalist Party propagandists had already been beaten and bruised and swollen, but fortunately the Liberal Party functionaries did not use their equipment, otherwise the Nationalist Party functionaries would have suffered even more.

There are really weapons, probably the propagandists of the National Party do not know about it, and the propaganda points of the Liberal Party have weapons, which are approved by the Johannesburg Police, which is a cooperative agency of the Johannesburg Police.

"It was the people from the National Party who did it first, and I just had a conversation with this gentleman, and they said something very ugly, and then this gentleman's colleagues spoke up, and those people became angry, and that's what happened." The girl did not take advantage of the chaos to leave, and was willing to testify with a sense of justice.

"Okay, thank you for your cooperation, if you can, can you go to the police station to add an official transcript?" If your trip is delayed, the police will compensate you, are you here for a tour? The police station can send a car to drop you anywhere you want to go in the Johannesburg area. "The sheriff's offer really made the girl unable to refuse.

"Of course, I'd love to!" The girl didn't know if she really had a strong sense of justice, or if she was attracted by the sheriff's uniform, and she had little stars in her eyes.

Just where the girl couldn't see, the Liberal Party staff who wanted to be her tour guide just now looked resentful.

The sheriff didn't talk nonsense, waved his big hand, and took everyone back to the police station.

The girl was riding on a three-wheeled motorcycle driven by the sheriff himself.

Back at the police station, the results were soon in, and all those involved in the brawl were punished, and the National Party propagandists were each detained for a week and fined five pounds for the first to provoke and then to act.

Liberal propagandists involved in the clashes were each detained for 12 hours and fined one pound.

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