Today is election day. The day that many of us have worked very hard for over the last few months, myself included. Personally, I have been fighting my very first election as a candidate [see above for a photo of my ballot paper] - to become a councillor in the ward in which I live - hence the lack of posts on this blog recently. You can see the two leaflets which I have been delivering in my ward here and here, along with many others across Watford and Three Rivers.

This morning I was up by 5.30am and went on a "dawn raid" in Watford, posting leaflets through doors reminding people that today was election day and that the Conservative candidate in their ward was the one to vote for. Then, after work, I went out knocking on doors and reminding people that they could still vote until 10pm. Some gave positive responses, some just said they "don't vote". But few gave particularly negative responses, which was nice.

The polls have closed across the country, and results are expected to start flooding in soon. Hopefully we will make good progress both across the country and specifically in Watford and Three Rivers.

Watch David Cameron casting his vote below:

Today I have been leafleting in Watford - my first time! I was leafleting to help the fantastic [and hilarious] Conservative PPC Ian Oakley take the seat away from the failing and useless Claire Ward.

It was great fun campaigning with other people, mostly Conservative Future members including a candidate for CF chairman, and will hopefully go some way towards getting more Conservative votes in Watford - and with less than two thousand votes between all three parties at the last parliamentary election [no matter what the Fib Dems claim], every vote counts!

One thing that that needs to be done is for the Watford Conservative website to get back online.

In a rare occurrence, the Lib Dems have apologised for their lying to the Watford electorate. Unfortunately they have only apologised for mis-attributing the words of the Lib Dem Mayor to the Watford Observer, rather than for the actual lie itself.

Of course it's not the view of the newspaper, because it's simply not true. Despite what the Lib Dems, and especially their seemingly habitual liar of a PPC, claim Watford is a three-way marginal seat - less than two thousand votes separate the three main parties - as I blogged about before, when this particular lie was made in a leaflet that dropped through my letter-box.

So now, Sal Brinton, I challenge you to come clean and admit the rest of your lying. Admit that you have wilfully misled the people of Watford with your leaflets. Admit that Watford is a close and rare three-way marginal. It is not true that "[o]nly the Lib Dems can beat Labour here" in the slightest. Whilst I don't - and cannot - argue that the Lib Dems' Sal Brinton have a good chance of wining Watford's parliamentary election, so does Claire Ward and Ian Oakley [who you can help win by going here].

There is no excuse for your lying, so own up to it.

via Chris Paul and Tom Watson

Want an opportunity to campaign in one of the tightest marginals in the country? Then go here and take up the opportunity to participate in a rare three-way marginal, where less than two thousand votes decide which party wins the seat - where either a Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem could be sent back to Westminster [despite the Lib Dems lies to the contrary].

If Cameron is to win, or even significantly reduce Brown's majority, he needs to win Watford. And as such Ian Oakley, Watford PPC, needs support.

After all, by this time next week, an election could well have been called!

This is the area in which I have lived all my life [bar university]. It has a Lib Dem council and mayor [Three Rivers, a separate council but forms part of the parliamentary constituency, also has a LD council] and a Labour MP. And all of them are bloody useless.

The Lib Dem councils do bugger-all except send out leaflets, which in themselves are full of lies and deceptions. In the most recent one, which I reported here, they claimed that it is a "two-horse race in Watford", a claim which I showed to be utterly false. Watford is one of the tightest marginals in Britain, and a classic three-horse race, with less than 2,000 votes separating all three parties in the 2005 general election.

As such a tight marginal, Ian Oakley, the Conservative PPC, needs to pull his finger out. My area of Watford has never had any Conservative leaflets dropped through the letterbox. He doesn't appear to be turning up in the local newspapers. The Lib Dems do the leafleting, and that - and that only - is the reason why they hold the council. They're useless at doing everything else.

He needs to leaflet the entire constituency pointing out Lib Dem candidate Sal Brinton's lies in her leaflet and letters sent out and Claire Ward's utter uselessness as MP for Watford. Labour and the Liberal Democrats, through their uselessness, lies, and general incompetence, have caused people to lose faith and interest in politics. The Conservatives can get it back. Watford is a constituency that is eminently winnable - but considering the level of apathy, not without a good deal of work.

Source: The Times

We all know about the Lib Dems and their bar charts. They're about as accurate as a five-year-olds attempt at long division. But with the one on a leaflet and a letter delivered to my house today is technically correct. but misleading - but the commentary is a complete lie.

They claim on the leaflet that it is a "Two-horse race in Watford". Which is a complete and utter lie, as it is a three-horse race. The result at the 2005 election was:
Thus, the claim that "Only the Lib Dems can beat Labour here" is utter bullshit. So long as Ian Oakley works hard, he has plenty of chance of winning this seat. Sal Brinton, the Lib Dem PPC for Watford has no more chance than he does, and neither does Claire Ward, the sitting MP. It really is a three-horse race, and anyone can win.

In her letter, Sal Brinton claims that
Half of that statement has already been proven to be wrong. Sal was not in a "clear" second place. There was less between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats than between the Lib Dems and Labour [Con-LD: 793; LD-Lab: 1,148]. It isn't possible for them to have finished "close" to Labour, and yet "clear" from the Conservatives considering the numerical facts.

Labour was only able to win this seat because the vote against them was split. And the implication that people should thus vote Lib Dem in Watford in order to get rid of the useless Claire Ward is rubbish, and can easily be turned right back on them. Labour nationally won only because the vote against them was split. So, to advance their own implied argument, the Lib Dems should pack up and go home because it is them that are causing this Labour Government [2005 result: Lab 37%, Con 33%, LD 22%]. Which of course they won't, and they shouldn't. But that is what Sal's argument says they should do.

The Lib Dems are also claiming that Ali Miraj, the ex-PPC, has said that
If he did say that, he really is an utter idiot, and I'm glad that he isn't Watford PPC - or a candidate at all.

The Lib Dems are thus lying again. Their bar charts are at best misleading, and at worst downright lies. And their commentary on the results are just as bad. When will they stop their lying? Probably never. But at least they really have earned the nickname "Fib Dems".