Paul Johnston

As we enter the final week of campaigning the Lib Dems have at last delivered a FOCUS leaflet in part of Surbiton Hill. Thank the Lord for that! I was beginning to worry that they might not get round to it at all and make our team complacent. As it is the FOCUS has been great for morale and we had the best Conservative team out in the Ward this morning that we've had for weeks!

The leaflet itself is very poor by their usual standards. a bit of a rehash of stuff they've put out elsewhere, including some obscure 4-year-old quote a former Independent councillor. Not much on their candidates or their plans for the future. 

That's the odd thing about the whole Lib Dem campaign. It's almost entirely reactive to what we are saying and is saying very little at all about their own plans for the future, except to try to sell Local Income Tax - which half their own party doesn't believe in (ask Sue Doughty!) and which Kingston Borough Council has no power to introduce anyway.