Anders Hanson

One of the disadvantages of being a constituency organiser is that you spend most of your election sat in an office writing and printing leaflets. I enjoy being out there delivering leaflets or knocking on doors, particularly when the weather has been as good as it has been lately. Fortunately, with most of my leaflet writing now done, today I had a bit of time to do some real electioneering and went to deliver some leaflets.

My experience was a prime example of how not to judge an election by just one road. By the end of the first road I was getting pretty depressed, as it seemed as though every single house had a Green poster. Things perked up considerably though when I went round the corner to an almost identical road to find no Green posters but Lib Dem ones instead.

By this point I was beginning to feel considerably happier, but then I got to my final road. I had just delivered a leaflet to one house when I heard a voice shout, “Who do I make a complaint to?” and a lady came out of a house waving a leaflet. At this point you suspect a complaint about something contained within the leaflet. I went over to the lady slightly fearful but intending to be polite and helpful. I was then pleasantly surprised to hear her say, “I want to talk to someone about a dangerous paving slab. I’ve seen him doing things around here, (pointing at the picture of the Lib Dem candidate on the leaflet), could you tell him about it? We had the Greens down here, but they’re doing my head in”. My serenity and positive feelings were quickly restored!