Wed, 05 May 2010
Do you want my vote?
We are now entering the finishing straight of this election, at the time of writing, less than 36 hours are left before the polls close. Yet as I sit here at my desk in canterbury, It feels like there is no actual election happening.
I followed with great interest the three TV debates, and I have been following various online sources for news of the campaigns, but here in my local constituency of Canterbury and Whitstable very little has actually happened. Cycling around town there are no big bill board posters from the main parties like there are in some other locations (on a recent visit to London I saw a lot of billboard posters relating to the election), infact the only evidence I have seen by way of the campaigns are a number of the diamond shaped Liberal Democrat signs on the road to the hospital, and a largish Liberal Democrat banner on St Stephens road. Outside of the house, that is all I have seen of the parties. Which is rather dissappointing.
At home I have received the following fliers in the post:
- 2 - Liberal Democrat fliers
- 1 - Labour flier
- 1 - Green party flier
- 1 - Money reform party flier
- 1 - UKIP flier
- 1 - Green party flier
That's it. Nothing infact from the incumbant Conservative candidate Julian Brazier.
Canterbury and Whistable is considered by pretty much everyone to be a safe Conservative seat, it has been Conservative since its inception, and in the last general election Julian Brazier won with a 15.7% majority. But in a general election that most people think is going to leave no one party with an ourtight majority, the amount each party gets by way of the popular vote will be crucial when it comes to the coalition negotiations. So why then do the Conservatives in Canterbury not seem to want my vote? Why are the other parties only content on padding out my recycling bin? What ever the reason, I hope the turn out is more enthusiastic than the campaign.
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