First Day of the General Election 2010

Drove in to work today from the Easter break I hoped to have been out over the weekend leafleting with the Labour Party PPC for Milton Keynes North Andrew Pakes and Team Labour in Bradwell but suffered from a burst mouth ulcer which surprisingly left me so drained I felt like a frail eighty year old so could only rest and watch events nationally on BBC News 24 and read The Guardian and sad I know clips from You Tube of the 1974 General Elections as so many pundits said this General Election will be the closes since that year.
I was working away getting the agenda out of the Community Development Committee checking my emails etc regreting that I had no medium that I could use to hear live when the Prime Minister went to the Palace, one City Councillor came in to the office from leafleting and could not tell me if the election had been called, but another Parish Councillor who rang me without prompting confirmed the starting gun had been fired and the General Election was away, and was asking me constitional questions on if Gordon Brown lost his seat but Labour had won what would happen and who would become Prime Minister.
One work colleague brought in a Labour Newsletter put through her door over the weekend that had a photograph of me in a group shot with Dr Phyllis Starkey MP and said we looked like a funny family as the headline above it was about campaigning for families, I replied that I am part of the Labour family I was quite chuffed that I thought of that.
I drove home in lovely sunshine and once home I watched News 24 to see the Prime Minister driving to the Palace and the Queen being flown from Balmoral and walking across her green back yard to have her audience with Gordon Brown.
Once he got back to Downing Street he spoke with the whole of the Cabinet standing next to him asking for a clear mandate from the British Public.
I quite enjoyed seeing the former Deputy Leader and Prime Minister John Prescott being interviewed energised and going to Carlile in his Battle Bus tommorrow I hope that I have as much energy and passion at 71 as he has, it was sad to hear when he said that it was the last time today that he walked in to Parliament after 40 years as a MP and the first election after fighting ten elections that he would not be coming back to Westminister, he even blandished his very tattered pledge card where he said the Labour Government had delivered on them all and unlike David Cameron's Tories people knew where the party stood and had very clear policies, the interviewer did ask if he will go to the Lords but he did laugh saying that he was unsure but Pauline has made her views known so we shall see.
Same great natural justice when Nick Griffin MEP and leader of the BNP starting to attack Labour when questioned about a former BNP press officer who was trying to get him killed and the screen froze and they had to cut the rest of the interview.
There then followed Jeremy Vine's swingometer which showed the Tories would need a 6.9% swing to even obtain a one seat majority and an analist of all the polls so far in April.
Lastly shots were shown of Gordon Brown returning back to Downing Street after a first full day's campaigning which previously showed him with Sarah Brown on his first train journey meeting train passengers and at a cafeteria where a young man asking if he wanted a job his female counterpart said she could fix him up with one oh dear that gave the comentator a field day about his future career prospects!
I really felt the election had started when I put my vote Labour posters up in my window the only posters in my close and so stands out a mile.
Just waiting now for my vote Andrew Pakes Window and car posters then I will be really fired up.