Two days to go

I've not had time to sit at a keyboard in the past three days as we've spent the whole bank holiday weekend calling back on people who were out the first time we called.

As usual the closer the election gets, the more helpers come out - we had 18 different people out canvassing in Highbury West over the weekend, with a similar number out delivering leaflets and letters to voters. Over the three days we called on almost every street in the ward and spoke to many more Green voters. The mood in the ward is really positive - people keep telling me on the doorstep that they hope I'll get in and that they think we've got a really good chance based on their conversations with friends - which confirms what our canvass returns say.

There are two more days of canvassing and then the big day itself, when we have to work even harder to make sure that our voters turn out to vote. Every time I bump into the Labour candidate on the street, she tells me that she's looking forward to a rest when the campaign ends. Either this means she doesn't think she's going to get elected, or she thinks that being a councillor will be easy. I'm under no such illusion - the real work starts on Friday when, hopefully, I'll have the responsibility of representing Highbury West as Islington's first Green councillor.