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The Liberals in Swansea West have been busy in the past few days out knocking on the doors of postal voters and canvassing them face to face - their candidate knocked on my door.

In a constituency where I am still yet to see a single Labour poster - the forest of Liberal ones, the occasional Tory one and even a single Plaid one make the lack of Labour ones all the more noiceable - I can only assume that Labour are either taking the seat for granted or they have already given up on it.

The Council Wards in this constituency went from Labour to the Liberals a few years ago. You really get the sense that Labour are asleep in the area and the Liberals are on steroids - and the seat is not even that high a Liberal target.

A few years ago a goat could have been voted in if it had a red Labour rosette pinned on it.

still trying to get my head around the Irish guys who were dead and yet still voted...how do they do that?

Stevie: it is the power of true religion.

It had something to do with the register of the electors not being maintained properly allowing organised personation to take place. This ensured the same old gang stayed in power regardless.

This is how we got the Civil Rights movement. The violent resistance of the authorities or should I say the same old gang to that expression of people power triggered The Troubles that lasted a generation.

The question should be not `how' but `why'.

In the end all elites are deluded.

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A Newsnight colleague got his postal ballot this morning. So some people will have begun voting today..

As, one is sure, some minds were made up a long time ago.

Is it possible for me to vote NOTA between the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and 'right wing press' candidates... when the time comes?

#5 JunkkMale: -

Just write "Liar Loans" on your ballot paper.

If you are really daring take some coloured pencils into the polling booth with you and write each letter in a different colour! ;-)

Any day now I am expecting the phrase "Liar Loans" to be added as a phrase in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, so common-place has it become in our lexicon.

THE NATIVES ARE FRIENDLY IN NEWBURY

I took my gormless MP friend (rosette on a pole - see [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator]among the Newbury shoppers, again, on Saturday.

He was well received, but none showed inclination to vote for him.

In Newbury the contest is between the present incumbent (Tory) and the previous one (LibDem) hence they both have form - living within the Westminster Lie. Our Tory MP was also out and about, ostensible offering REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, but really saying: "Vote for my rosette, or my party will be one MP short, and I will have to go back to being ordinary."

Yes Michael - THE VOTING BEGINS - but it will only lead to more PARTY GAMES under the WESTMINSER ETHOS and WITHIN THE LIE.

As a council candidate my 'advice' from the elections office was that postal ballot papers would be sent out on Monday 26th. I consequently timed my deliveries of letters to postal voters to be completed by 25th.

Yesterday morning (24th) at 10.30am my own postal ballot paper arrived with the instruction to 'please return this immediately' and a further card which said 'return straight away'. This could damage this carefully organised part of my campaign.

Hopefully they will not try to sabotage my public meeting on Tuesday (when I have Dai Davies as guest speaker) and we can recover some ground.

And a phone call from a 'Mrs Brennan' at 11.30am today thanked me for my letter and said she would definitely be supporting me - and ask others to do likewise.

redmik