Glenrothes - Last few days of campaigning

With only a few days left of campaigning in Glenrothes things are certainly hotting up! What I found out in Glasgow East is that the last week of the campaign is the most crucial as it's usually the last few days before the by-election when voters finally decide who they intend to vote for! Now, obviously we would like as many as possible to vote SNP, but I'm not going to pretend that it's not going to be a fight to win! However, I am pretty confident. So far I have campaigned in the constituency five times, and I'm making my next journey tomorrow, and the response which we have had has been incredibly encouraging! Even if we're just delivering leaflets through doors people have come out of their houses just to tell us that we can count on their vote! People, even in Cardenddon, have been coming up to us and asking for window posters! Cyclists whizzing past us are giving us thumbs up! And, as if that wasn't enough, a report in today's Scotsman newspaper said that both the "SNP and Labour agree on one thing - Glenrothes will go Nationalist"!! The report even went on to state that one Labour source conceded "If the SNP are predicting a win, they are being more realistic than hubristic"!!

So while I'm not taking anything for granted and I'm not saying that it's in the bag for the SNP, once you get your opponents conceding defeat this close to polling day you just can't help but feel good!