Richard Baum

I am a bit damp at present, having just returned from leafleting in a downpour. Obviously now that I am back inside, the sun is shinning, but that’s just the typical fun God likes to have with me.

With just three days after today left until polling day, it’s full pelt for the Bury Lib Dems as we campaign for the local elections. As well as Mary D’Albert in St Mary’s, long-standing and hard working Councillors Ann Garner and Vic D’Albert are standing for re-election in Sedgley and Holyrood wards respectively, and we have candidates in all the other wards across Bury too. So there are soaked Lib Dems up and down the Borough right now.

My finger is still attached to the rest of my hand, which is an unexpected bonus given the amount of blood pouring from it on Friday night. I nearly lost the plaster in someone’s mailbox this morning, but managed to retrieve it despite the overwhelming temptation to leave it on top of the Labour leaflet which it had fallen on to. So right now the wound is being given a chance to breath before this afternoon’s leaflet-fest.

I am not sure how frequently the blog will be updated in the coming days. My fingers should be doing things involving leaflets, envelopes and doorbells, rather than typing, I suspect. But I will try to make it every day nonetheless. It’s important that we remember the key choice for Thursday - between a Labour Party imploding across the country and trying to make poor people poorer still, whilst shutting down schools and post offices here in Bury, and a Lib Dem candidate in Mary D’Albert who campaigns for stronger local facilities, a better Prestwich Village, and really gets things done locally.

Rick