Our Liberal Democrat campaigners have been out and about knocking on doors. The selection of tweets that follow represents a tiny snapshot of the work going on across the country. The Liberal Democrats are bright, bold and determined in the run up to May 7th.
@NthNfkLibDems @normanlamb busy day door knocking! Good response & delivery done in Lessingham! #busycampaign pic.twitter.com/6xXSyMXPPM
— Dave thomas (@dthomas83uk) February 28, 2015
Great day with Susan Juned and the Alcester Lib Dem team speaking to residents. #Alcester #WorkingForYou pic.twitter.com/4AzinEwztd
— Elizabeth Adams (@Liz4Stratford) February 28, 2015
More good canvassing today. People say they’ve heard nothing from other parties & are pleased how hard Lib Dems work. pic.twitter.com/WmjCjwnApe
— Ben Nicholls (@BenForRSN) February 28, 2015
You don’t need astrology to tell you that there’s a highly motivated Liberal Democrat team behind Michael Mullaney’s campaign to oust the MP who wants Astrology to influence how we run the NHS.
Great turnout for #hinckley & Bosworth action day. Everyone keen to replace Mr Tredinnick on May 7 #battleofbosworth pic.twitter.com/AXpj35spOS
— Michael Mullaney (@miketmullaney) February 28, 2015
In Hornsey and Wood Green, Lynne Featherstone led her team into action:
At a huge action day getting @Lfeatherstone re-elected. (@ Highgate) https://t.co/NE1kampsoa pic.twitter.com/eqo9xVbrFc
— JonBall (@JonBall) February 28, 2015
LGBT+ Lib Dems were out at Student Pride:
Great day @studentpride – lots of sign up to our petition on @lgbt+ phobia in sport @LiberalYouth @lgbtld @LibDems pic.twitter.com/F7esTyMlsd
— Adrian Trett (@Juvelad) February 28, 2015
Adrian Sanders brightened up Torbay:
Big thanks to the team who have come to help @adriansandersmp @TorbayLibDems #GE2015 pic.twitter.com/BEmACBCeGK
— Swithin Long (@SaintSwith) February 28, 2015
Heaven knows why Twitter put a content warning on this photo from Stephen Gilbert’s team – it just showed a lot of happy, determined Liberal Democrats.
great team campaigning in Newquay today! pic.twitter.com/apyew8kxmH
— Stephen Gilbert MP (@stephen_gilbert) February 28, 2015



6 Comments
The national polls in Sundays papers have the LibDems at 6% and 8%, basically where they have been for many months. During the week Scottish and London polls had them at 3% and 8% respectively. Those campaigners look like a nice bunch, but they are in for an up hill struggle and because of their leadership it’s one they can’t win.
What counts as winning? 6-8% translates into 20-30 seats. Every seat we win is one less for the other parties. We were never going to win the General Election outright. Good for those who were out campaigning, I say!
Malc, in the key seats we are doing a great deal better than our national poll rating and in every seat we will have some achievable target to meet.
Caron, I admire your optimism. However Electoral Calculus was published yesterday. This was very accurate in terms of our seat return at the last General Election when others were forecasting all sorts of advance. Yesterday it gave us 15 seats, Labour 301, Cons 265, SNP 46!!!!
I can well recall 1970, just over 300 candidates, 7.5% of the vote and how many MPs, single figures? We had target seats then and had a rough time.
The SNP are at, what, 2-3% in the polls, and seem quite chipper?
It’s not your UK-wide percentage that counts, it’s where the votes are.
Liberal Neil.
We had target seats in 1970 and lost most of them including Orpington, Bodmin ,Cheadle etc.