Sandy 4 St Albans

I expect you knew that.  It’s certainly a relief to the candidates that we have almost reached the finishing post!

This week we had Simon Hughes in his dayglo taxi on Monday – and his magic touch conjured up even more poster boards in prominent locations.

Today Vince Cable came to town.  There’s only one Nick Clegg, there’s only one Vince Cable, there’s only so much they can do in the final day before polling day.  So it is highly significant that the party high command sent Deputy Leader Vince to St Albans for a walkabout in the market and a robust and enjoyable soap-box stump speech outside the Alban Arena.

It is a sign of their desperation that the Conservatives wheeled in a bunch of “students” from outside the city to wave blue placards and heckle – rather feebly I thought.  Given the almost total invisibility of any Conservative posters in the constituency, I remarked that just by being there they doubled the Conservative poster count from five to ten.

Both this morning and later at lunch time, shoppers came up to wish me luck and in  many cases to confirm that they had already voted LibDem by post.  Likewise residents in the street in Bedmond, Primrose Hill, St Albans and Park Street.

Ladbrokes today offers the same odds on me or Mrs Main winning – we are both at 10/11, with Labour drifting to 25/1.

Polls close at 10 pm and we will know the actual result sometime in the early hours of Friday.  Whatever happens, we have made a huge impact in this election – both nationally and locally.  Politics will never be the same.

PS If you need any information on voting or a lift to the polls, please call the Liberal Democrat headquarters on 01727 855523.