Today is May 3rd. It is 12:00. There are 47 hours of campaigning remaining until the polls open at 7am. If you see any more campaign materials or meet any of the candidates out and about please let me know - blogger@robdyke.com.

A departure from the tabloid red top of Brent News, the latest campaign freesheet from the Lib Dems, Brent News, leads with the headline of ‘Sarah Set To Win’ - naturally… It features a photo of the Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy with Sarah Teather on Kilburn High Road. Good to see that when top ‘names’ (to borrow the description Yasmin gave to the ‘top labour’ people who have given her support) from the Lib Dems come to support their candidate it is their Leader and prospective Prime Minister that visits....

Here’s a scan of the Brent East Labour News ‘“I’m Backing Yasmin”’ I picked up at Kilburn Station last week. Front page - PDF file Back page - PDF file

So, did you get your Preferendum from George ‘Rainbow’ Weiss last week? You can’t have missed it: it was an A3 sheet of paper folded to A4 and covered with text. What was curious about the materials was the lack of photographs - no pic of Rainbow George, no pic of Tony Bush and George Blair. A preferendum is an experiment in participatory democracy. The Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket party is encouraging the electorate to vote not only for their candidate but also for the policies of the party should it be elected to form a government....

The man who claimed that New Labour had ‘sexed up’ the dossier on the threat possed to the United Kingdom by Sadam Hussain’s Iraq is being quoted by Yasmin Qureshi on her most recent campaign material. Andrew Gilligan was writing in Friday 29th Evening Standard. I picked up the most recent flyer - literally, there were some floating around the platform at Kilburn, Jubilee Line - in the early evening on Friday....