Canvassing

I have been out knocking on people's doors.

It's a big job (according to the Royal Mail there are 51,000 doors to knock on in the consituency) and a slow one (you want to talk to people and that takes time). I also work for a living, so sadly there are a lot of doors I won't be able to knock on between now and May 6th.

I am trying to do as much as I can though and what I have been hearing from people is interesting.

Most of the people - no, almost all of the people - I spoke to were genuinely unsure how to vote (they didn't say they wouldn't, although one man shut the door crying: "No, not politics! A thousand times, no!" so he might not bother).

No one really wanted another Labour term but there were more than a few who admitted to being lifelong Conservative voters who wouldn't vote Tory this time.

Many just said they would vote for the least worst. I know that feeling all too well. That's why I'm standing to try and offer a positive choice not a negative one.

Don't decide where to put your cross when you're standing in the polling booth. Don't vote for the least worst. Vote for a fresh approach. Vote for an end to the mad, headlong rush off the edge of the economic and environmental cliff. Vote for hope and sanity. Vote Green and feel good about it. A vote like that could never be a wasted one.

Find out more and read the Green Party manifesto, which launched today.