The rain held off long enough for us to repair our election poster sites, trashed by Tory hooligans overnight, after which I reviewed the results of our canvassing. Michael is winning easily in Priory Ward, Percy is behind but gaining ground in Buckden and we have nothing for Des Merrill yet but anecdotally he is doing well after we highlighted the sitting Tory Councillors absences. Agreeing the copy for and then creating our third leaflet this evening. Daniel returned home today with news of the girlfriend he found in Russia, but he lacks contact information to pursue his interest
A tough and tiring day today. I was awake in the night hearing the sound of a disturbance and my suspicions were proved correct this morning when we found the vast majority of all of our Little Paxton poster sites either missing or damaged by a group of three hooligans that I trailed last night. Michael Pope and I had to spend all morning finding, repairing and replacing the posters which was was both annoying and exhausting at the same time. This afternoon, Michael and I worked on the rest of the copy for his final leaflet and then Percy Meyer, Des Merrill and Moira Biggins joined us to make our first review of the canvass returns and statistics. Michael is well ahead in the results for Priory so far and would seem certain to be re-elected. Percy is a little behind in Buckden County Ward but has a fair standing at this stage of our campaign. No real statistics for Des Merrill yet but informal canvassing shows him well ahead in Gransden and Abbotsley after we had highlighted the absences of the sitting Tory County and District Councillors.
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The effort is now needed for Percy and we have 2 ½ weeks to do the work. I spent the evening on the third leaflets, the format of which we also agreed during the meeting. We broke off at 10.30pm tonight and, after bedtime drink, I went to bed with the rain teaming down outside. Mercifully, it had been fine and dry this morning when we needed it to be. Daniel arrived back from Russia today. The good news is that he has a Russian girlfriend which he met and went out with every day. The bad news is that she is behind the Iron Curtain and he does not have her address. A sad meeting and parting. He evidently fell foul of the KGB when trying to smuggle her into his hotel but was also taken to her family’s flat and introduced to them.