If you want an idea of how exhausting this election has been for some voters in marginals, just watch this video of a Green supporter in Bristol West:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5PN6-nMI8
I profiled the seat, where the Lib Dems are trying to hold off a ‘Green surge’ among middle-class voters, here and I was rather impressed with quite how many leaflets Stephen Williams had managed to produce even before the short campaign got underway. It will be a tough seat for the Lib Dems to hold, even if the Greens don’t win, as Labour appears to be in front currently. But perhaps Williams is trying a new ‘get out the vote’ strategy, in which anyone who might not vote for him cannot get out to vote because their door is hidden behind a snowdrift of leaflets.
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Isabel Hardman
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