The Aldridge-Brownhills campaign did not get off to a great start. On my way home from paying the council the £500 deposit my shoelace snapped. Pink Andorevil Gem who had helped or hindered in previous campaigns defected to the Tories. In the first week of the campaign my car broke-down (anyone know where I can get a replacement front wheel hub for a MK2 Subaru Justy?). I printed and delivered 5,000 leaflets to the wrong constituency. I missed the only hustings as they arranged it for when I was in Edinburgh for St George’s day. It was not all bad though, I made the front page of the Express & Star. I received offers to join not one but two rival parties (TUSC and Conservative). By the end of the campaign 197 people in Aldridge-Brownhills had voted for me in the parliamentary election while 220 people from the Pelsall ward of Aldridge-Brownhills voted for me in the council election, and rumour has it that one of my polices may yet be enacted.