The Final 24 Hours..... - 10:36 pm, Wed 5th May 2010
Not even the welcome distraction of seeing Spurs clinch fourth place in the Premiership could take my mind off the polls. The latest batch tonight still show it as being incredibly tight, with Harris providing the only comfort of Labour as the single largest party. However, there is optimism to be found in the wider fact that it is truly amazing to see the margins as close as they are at this late stage, and if there are as many undecideds out there as we are told (my sister in law amongst them, sadly enough) then nothing at all about the final result can be imputed from these figures.
I will be heading over to Crawley tomorrow, where Labour is defending a 33 vote majority from 2005, as well as doing some final vote driving here in South West Surrey. And then it will be to Haslemere for the reckoning.
It's been a strange campaign. The TV debates have driven the polls to such a large extent that it is impossible to gauge what people think of our policies, but rather we can see what they think of all the leaders. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, but it certainly has not helped us as much as the LIberals.
The final message on the phones and doorsteps tomorrow is simple. Labour is the party of social justice. We don't just parrot the words fairness and equality, we mean them. But we also know that social justice doesn't happen by accident. Left to its own devices society will not deliver fairness. So we need to fight for it. We need a government which will intervene to make it happen. We need to constantly work to achieve it. That is what a vote for Labour is all about: fighting for social justice, not sitting back and crossing our fingers.
Vote Labour on May 6th.
