The One Man Army

I have been unable to get back into writing the blogg until now, because at last, over the past few days I was permitted to venture out of the house and into the constituency.

Even better has been the fact that over the weekend I participated in some media debates, on the Politics Show West on Sunday, and then just afterwards a special segment on Radio Bristol. Any fans of yours truly will have seen my performance and been quite impressed. In fact, I finally got a call from Tory head Office, and they were so pleased with the way that I had remembered all my lines and kept to what I was told to say, I was even allowed to talk to the BBC, albeit under lock-and-key.  Go here to read it, Mr Barltrop kindly links back to this very blogg.

After all the fuss in the press, like the profile of me in the Times, and the numerous articles asking for my whereabouts, we were obliged to give this national interview to Channel 4.

You can see the clip below. There is a bit of guff about animal welfare or some such nonsense, so I advise you to hop along to my bit, which comes at 8:40:

You will probably have noticed that the difference between my segment, and those of the ghastly lefties is the style of campaigning. I am a one man army, so to speak, while the Labour candidate is off talking to constituents and the Lib Dem candidate is haunting the streets, I am slowly and quietly popping my leaflet through each letter box all by myself.

Admittedly, it is partly because my campaign does not have any money or donations, as I explained here and then again here and then partly because we do not have any volunteers. I shall go to the trouble of point out that it is not my fault. It is not as if all the Somerset Tories, (and do not forget that we control the local Council) have given up on me, or that they do not wish to be seen with me. It is just that most of the Tories here are somewhat too old and crusty to be sent wandering around the hills by themselves.

Far better to leave it all to me!

PS. I do actually know when Pheasant Season is. It’s from October to February; anybody knows that! I was just feigning ignorance for the sake of “not being a toff.”