What news from the front?
Update
Quick update on what's been happening in the Springburn campaign. Sunday morning myself and Jennifer delivered letters to tenements in Dennistoun. Then some more of us did the same in the Garngad /Royston area (see pic). That was interesting because there were loads of people around. It was a warm morning and some folk were out on their balconies, while others stood in small groups chatting outside the row of shops on Royston Road.
Gallus
You have to be quite gallus in this life so I just introduced myself to anyone who made the mistake of not walking fast enough :-) Got a really good response. I was asking them how they were feeling about the election. Anecdotal evidence can never be relied on but I'm now hearing more of the positive reasons for voting SNP than the negative reasons for not voting Labour. Good news.
Scrap council tax
Not that everyone felt the same but there's a much warmer attitude toward the SNP than there's ever been. We carried on miles up Royston Road and I met a woman who was overjoyed to hear that we will scrap the council tax. She and her husband are nearing retirement, on low wages and yet paying £40 a month each! That's not fair.
The thing that struck me about this woman was not so much her joy at the news I brought with me - more her surprise. How could she not know that the SNP will scrap council tax? Could it be that not everyone is as excited by this election as I???
Onwards
So, to last night. I think we had ten activists out which was amazing. They included two new recruits - my cousins A and L - I've not to "advertise them on a website" so I'll keep their names under wraps :-) Anyway they were great and we got tonnes done. We were in Riddrie and we walked for miles delivering these letters. We finished at 9 and I dropped L off whilst A drove to Prestwick to pick up her sister. I headed home, phoned a few people to sort out some stuff for tomorrow, watched Scotland on Film (if you've not seen it, look out for it - fascinating) and just as I was settling down to watch Alex Salmond on Newsnight Scotland, the buzzer went and it was the Tartan Hero himself with letters for me to deliver this morning before the buzzers go off. Right better get on with it! Tally ho!
