Early impressions of the campaign

A Highly Placed Source sends me some impressions of the first couple of days of the campaign:

• spirits are really high, and our activists are really keen to be up and at them where we have a chance of winning;
• finance is looking good although, as ever, any extra money would be appreciated;
• support from the centre has been effective thus far;
• Labour campaigning is patchy, and they seem to be overly reliant not just on union funding but union shoe leather too - the first Labour leaflet in Bradford East was apparently pretty amateurish;
• we're getting a decent hearing on the doorstep, although the number of genuinely undecideds and don't knows is higher than I can recall - my money is on a low turnout;
• the further from London you get, the less convinced Tories are with David Cameron;
• Vince is just as huge a factor as we might have hoped

The only point I would take issue with is the second one. The Liberal Democrats are always short of money.

Take on some bar work. Remortgage your house. Sell you children into slavery. If we succeed in getting proportional representation and site value rating, they will thank you.

In the long run.