This Sunday lunchtime in the glorious weather, I took my customary stroll through Edinburgh: Stockbridge, the New Town, Haymarket, Dalry, Gorgie and back via Princes Street. Not an election poster, not a candidate on the street, no touring car with loudspeaker. Not a sign that an election was taking place. Perhaps the pundits and the bloggers are kidding themselves (ourselves) with our obsessive attention to manifestos, political tv ads, who's up, who's down.
Perhaps I just missed it. Perhaps, it is all happening elsewhere. Perhaps, activity will intensify over the next two and a half weeks. But I fear that the most likely election winner is the "Can't be bothered" party.
4 comments:
HW - come to Glasgow, you'll be tripping over SNP activists though!
I've barely seen anything myself.
Colin Fox on Princes St banging away about free public transport. And suspiciously more policemen on the streets, that's about it really...
Sorry, Grant, very little activity in the west end of Glasgow - despite hopes that it's now a 3 way marginal. Poster wars dominated by the Greens and the christians, SNP only now getting posters up - Tories and Labour entirely invisible!
Very quiet - and thank God for that!
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