I was starting to think that our road ha fallen off the election map. Apart from a few leaflets we got through the door earlier this week I hadn’t seen any sign of any campaigning activity.
Then today, as we get back from a walk on the common, we find that the Labour party have put a copy of their manifesto through the letterbox. And it had a label on it that addresses it to Gill and me so it’s obviously a targetted campaign tactic. I thought about buying their manifesto a couple of weeks ago but couldn’t find any copies on sale in Balham so it’s nice to get a free copy.
And then the image of the Labour party as a well-organised campaigning machine was shattered ten minutes ago when another Labour canvasser turned up on the doorstep with no knowledge at all of the earlier visit. He left us a copy of a letter from Robin Cook which repeats the tired old “a protest vote leads to a Tory government” nonsense.