From the Worcester Park Blog:
Where, pray tell, are the candidates for the local elections? So far only the Liberal Democrat council candidates have graced my doormat with campaign literature and knocked on the door to speak to me (I wasn't in at the time).
Well, they'll be working hard in Kingston and Sutton, that's for sure as the Tories try to battle back to power in both local and parliamentary contests - Nick Clegg worked the territory this very morning. In my borough, Hackney, I've had only Labour on the knocker for the Council vote, which is admirable given that the party is so dominant in the town hall it would probably win by a mile anyway.
Like the Worcester Park blogger - a Top London Blogger, no less - I wasn't in at the time but my wife was. She was tending a poorly infant when the knock came at the door and, not knowing who it was, asked a mischievous visiting friend to answer it. "Just pretend you're me," was her advice. That's exactly what the friend did, though she decided not to do it in character. When asked how she would be voting, she stage flustered and replied, "Oh, I haven't discussed it with my husband yet."
I probably know those candidates. They probably know me. I wonder what they thought.
