Day 12

A campaign meeting for the ward in the morning is very upbeat despite the enormity of the task ahead. We agree plans for more leaflets, phones, target letters, poster distribution and I even have a volunteer for doing our lamppost posters! I know lampposts don’t have votes and I hear that there is a huge increase in postal votes but I think, if nothing else, lamppost posters give the election a sense of happening and urgency. They are a real pain however so if a ruling came to stop them I wouldn’t be looking for a ditch to die in over them. I then went out leafleting for 4 hours. Good response in the streets as I walked round which always keeps moral high. I saw Kenny MacAskill and his wee team driving round in a van shouting at everyone down a megaphone. Leafleting is very labour intensive and fair knackers your legs on all those stairs but its still more effective, I think anyway, than shouting at folk from afar.