More reports from the Loony candidate

From: John Cartwright (OMRLP)

16th July

An election meeting organised by local trade unions with the UKIP, Green and Respect candidates in attendance punctuated an otherwise not-very eventful hour or two in Ealing Common.

Apart from two houses with Lib Dem posters in their windows, there was no sign of any campaigning or activism at all. Two locals told me that I was the first candidate or politician that they had seen in the whole campaign.

This is in stark contract to the intense and energetic campaigning by dozens of activists from several parties in Southall.

This is a constituency of two very different halves, separated by politics and culture as well as geography.

The main parties may be taking the voters of central, south and eastern Ealing for granted, and the result on Thursday may be a reflection of that fact.