Another doorstep, another constituency...

Campaigning again this weekend, not surprisingly. I spent a day this week campaigning with Sarah Boyack, part of whose Edinburgh Central Scottish Parliament constituency is in my Westminster Parliament Edinburgh North & Leith constituency. Sarah's obviously well-known on the doorsteps; we were campaigning in an area with a lot of families, and people were positive about the money that has gone into local schools (something Labour would have done well in this campaign to have been more positive about, in my opinion). That discussion was the context of yet another complaint about Lib Dem misleading leaflets; in this case, one of the mothers complained that the LibDem candidate was claiming credit for new investment in a local school, without she thought any justification as she had no knowledge of the candidate ever having been involved in the campaign to get the investment.

I'm trying not to make this blog a whinge about political opponents (well not too much, it is election-time after all!), but the Lib Dems really do seem to be plunging new depths this time round in Edinburgh when it comes to misleading leaflets. I've mentioned earlier in this blog the misleading Lib Dem leaflets in this constituency, which use the 2005 UK election result for different boundaries to claim they are in second place (when in the last Scottish Parliament elections for the comparable constituency they were way behind in fourth place); and I've had a few emails from people who I know are not hard-line Labour supporters complaining about this.