Red Letter Days (blog in progress)

Had letter in Manchester Metro at the weekend. Severely edited thus :

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So will send follow up thus, waiting to see what response the above gets. In private correspondence with the letters' editor at the Metro I have predicted that there will be a personalised attack from the Lib Dems and no answers :

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My letter did not get into the South Manchester Reporter last week though Keith Bradley's team are reasonably happy with the balance of coverage now. The editor has finally put in more of a round up and over recent weeks has printed a picture of the Tory, UKIP, and Green pretenders. Though the Lib Dem's auto-hagiography of three weeks ago was pretty much a free and unmediated election address. Perhaps this letter will be in next week so I'll not post it here for now.

There was an excellent letter in the MEN Postbag last night attacking Lib Dem bar-charts and calling for a vote for either Labour or Tories. Keep it simple was the message! If you vote Lib-Dem you don't know who you'll get.

This should be available on the website, link to follow.

There was also a letter rehearsing the BNP platform without identifying that. The author signs "Phill" and is almost certainly the man who calls himself "Phill Edwards" (not his real name) the BNP's National Press Officer.

Perhaps worth a response.

I'll also post up a couple of recent letters I've submitted to the Guardian.

I've finally had a chance to read Nick Cohen's Observer piece about George Galloway and I will aim to post a blog entry about that here soon. In a nutshell I feel that Respect are guilty of a degree of communalism. Clearly the BNP are. But a third party is up to the same dangerous trick too. And it's not Labour.

Also something on the performances of Howard and Kennedy with respectively J Dimbleby plus audience, and Paxman.

I'm also hoping to find out the confirmed runners and riders in Manchester's five seats; and the final formation of the BNP threat.

Canvassing tonight will be in what should be another reasonably strong Labour ward in inner city Manchester.