Busy outside Kilburn Station this evening. Picked up a whole host of goodies and the Evening Standard.

Team Glenda gave me a DVD with ROSS KEMP on it! ‘Gone in 60 seconds’ explains “what’s at stake on Thursday“. Hopefully. He. Makes. It. Easy. For. Me. To. Understand.

Some more celebrity messages for Team Labour attacking the Tories from Jo Brand and Eddie Izzard. And David Tennant shares with us that he thinks David Cameron is “a terrifying prospect” in a viewspaper ‘Britian’s recovery at risk from Tories‘.

I also read David Cameron’s Contract With [me]. Headline: If we don’t deliver, kick us out. Detail: In five years time.

Liberal Democrat candidate Ed Fordham needs just 474 votes to win the seat from Glenda Jackson. Driving through QP this afternoon I saw lots of Labour posters and flags with only a few Lib Dem orange diamonds. Looks like there is mroe work for the Lib Dem team to do there. The Torys had just a single board – just like the solitary piece of literature I found from them today. Poor Chris Philp.

I’ve just scanned and uploaded all the materials I could gather in Queen’s Park ward of Hampstead and Kilburn to TheStraightChoice.

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The Straight Choice election leaflet project is an archive of election leaflets distributed throughout the campaign. This is a helpful thing to be doing as …..

1) Promises that candidates make in their leaflets can be compared to what they promise to do elsewhere. In the future we can also compare the voting record of MPs with what they promised on the campaign trail.

2) It helps catch parties or candidates who are breaking electoral law – 2 parties have been reported to the authorities based on leaflets uploaded to TheStraightChoice.org in the past couple of weeks.

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3) We get to see how the corporate identity of the main parties messages are tightly managed nationally.

Check out Brent Central, Brent North and Hampstead and Kilburn at the StraightChoice website and join in.

Democracy Club website helps us to hold candidates to account, and stimulate public engagement in the campaigns for local and national elections. Big job… lots of small tasks. The website helps residents to track and contact candidates, create local issue lists and track the responses from candidates.

Check out Brent Central, Brent North and Hampstead and Kilburn at the DemocracyClub website and join in.