3 days to go

We are in the last day of a very busy long weekend campaigning around North End, with three days to go until election day. It is clear that there are still many undecided voters, and this is looking like it will be the closest election for decades, at the local, parliamentary and indeed national level. This is making the campaign very interesting, and the large number of new volunteers to help in these final days is evidence that the close election is grabbing peoples' attention.

While campaigning yesterday, our canvass team saw the police make an arrest on Barons Court Road. In addition, in the past month one of our activists has seen two attempts to steal his bike foiled only by good fortune. This is a reminder of one of the key promises of our campaign. Crime in North End was up over 2% in 2008/09 compared to the year before. North End needs investment from the Council for 24/7 police patrols to combat these rising numbers of crimes. Our manifesto has promised these in the North End area and all the other wards in the borough. The cost of these can be met by cutting Council waste, most notably the shameful Council propaganda organ that your Council Tax pays for. We feel that extra police is a better investment of your hard-earned money than Council self-promotion.