Now, all parties, including my own, have trouble finding candidates in some areas, but, even knowing how sparse Wealden is for Labour (they have no seats on the district and only five at county level), their number of candidates really surprised me.
Conservatives: 51
Liberal Democrats: 36
Independents: 15
Greens: 12
Labour 2:
UKIP: 1
Two candidates? For over 50 seats? Crikey: this is the party running the country.
Regular readers will recall that I shot a crime-themed video for the last Liberal Democrat party conference.
I was pleased to see, when I got a copy of Tuesday’s party election broadcast, that a little bit of the footage I shot for that on my travels around the country made it onto primetime telly on BBC One, BBC Two and ITV1.
On Monday night, I joined host Zoe-Anne Phillips, fellow LibDem blogger Andy Mayer, Conservatives Caroline Hunt and John Moorcraft, and Australian Liberal (no relation to the Liberal Democrats) Michael Medway for three hours on internet TV station 18 Doughty Street.
We had some lively debates, to say the least. You can watch our first two shows, Blogger TV and Vox Politix, in the archive respectively here and here.
Tonight at 9pm on the same channel, you can catch Iain Dale‘s interview with the Liberal Democrats’ Chief Executive, Lord Rennard. It was recorded yesterday and is already online to watch here.
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