I haven't commented on the last of the TV debates as I have been a bit busy. Most of the analysis suggested that it was a 3 way draw but my view was that Brown did better than expected given the "bigotgate" fiasco of the day before, Clegg stumbled and took his time to get his points over, and Cameron failed to land any clear blows and looked fretful.
Returning from a long weekend away in Northumbria, we found a few new leaflets waiting on the doormat. The LibDems have reissued their original one we got from the candidate back on 15th April but with a new "stop press" box on the front. Apparently Nick Clegg has done well in the TV debates!
There were a couple of glossy Labour leaflets as well, another copy of the one received on 23rd April, and a new large one featuring the door to No 10 which opens out to list all the things that Cameron would cut or cancel.
On the local front, Benjamin Barton has withdrawn as a candidate complaining that the £500 registration fee was expensive and sending out 63000 leaflets would have cost him up to £5000. And today's Nottingham Evening Post carries a story that up to a quarter of local voters are undecided. It also reports that, based on their figures, Nottingham East could remain a Labour seat.
While I've been typing this, Gordon Brown has been on BBC News 24 giving a barnstorming speech setting out over 50 achievements of the Labour governments over the last 13 years. And it is a positive message for a change as he talked about future plans.
I'll probably not blog tomorrow as it is my birthday, and Thursday is the big day itself. So my next blog entry will probably be after the results are known.
And as we move to the decision day, I think I know which way I'm going to vote...
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