John Howell's Campaign Blog - 14th June

Thame Carnival - 1.30pm

I've just come back from the Thame Carnival and after a couple of cooler days (more bearable weather for canvassers!) the sun is out again. We saw the carnival pass through town and then went to the Southern Road Recreation Ground with some supporters to meet people and hand out more balloons. We saw lots of orange ones as we arrived, but they all turned out to be from the Co-op rather than the Liberal Democrats!

Speaking of which, I had a letter this morning from a lifelong Liberal Democrat voter who said she wouldn't go for them this time because of the nature of their campaign. The letter was followed up with a phone call this morning so she obviously feels very strongly about it. One or two people on the doorstep have begun to say the same thing - that they are really turned off by the negativity of the Liberal Democrat literature. Their campaign claims that I want to build on the green belt even though I have a long track record locally of campaigning against exactly that. It's the Liberal Democrats on the city council that want to build on the green belt in Oxfordshire so the cheek of their campaign is pretty breathtaking!

From: John Howell's Campaign Blog