He's crime commissioner, so not an unknown face, but he wasn't mentioned. I didn't get a sense that anyone was very interested in the candidates, or indeed the policies - the feeling was overwhelming… (View Post)

The memo does say directly that the "lost" Tories are overwhelmingly just sitting it out, with "very few direct switchers to opposition parties". That corresponds broadly to my im… (View Post)

It may be geographical. I get daily appeals on mid-Beds too, but I live in Surrey so Tamworth is further away. The Liverpool activists who I talked to at the conference said they were spending all th… (View Post)

IMO based on the four canvass rounds that I've been on, the LibDems are behind by a large margin, and their effort will literally help the Tories beat Labour, as Barnesian says he'd prefer. I do expe… (View Post)

Yes, or other dependents. At one stage, aboput a year, my mother was bedridden but refusing care from anyone except me, so I was literally racing between constituency, Parliament and home to try to c… (View Post)