Vote Green in Glasgow Kelvin

OK, so I'm a little late in writing this.. I've had my feet up watching Newsnight Scotland (I've been too tired the last three weeks to spend much time on TV so this was a luxury).

The last three weeks: the weather has been good, the public have been friendly and receptive and the campaigning has been (fairly) clean.

There have been some scandalous events - I've seen Labour party material sent out in Scottish Parliament stationery, Labour party elected representatives writing to me (unprompted) for the first time in 4 years on flimsy pretexts (using public money) to let me know how wonderful they were/things are. I've seen what I regard as being grossly misleading material from the SNP. Let's not talk about grossly inappropriate third party interference.

There have been some comic elements - at one hustings an MSP candidate described herself as "an empty vessel.." which "needs filling with ideas" (one of my hosts stifled a laugh as we exchanged equally disbelieving glances with each other). Another candidate's flier advertised her as interested in "gourmet cooking and having just taken up skiing and golf" - something not out of place in a dating column but surely not vital for whether you are fit as a law maker.

There have been some traditional campaigning moments - I watched Gorgeous George and Tommy in action at Glasgow Uni (and the SSP member who came to challenge Tommy). I've watched an SNP car, bedecked in balloons and blaring out bagpipes accompanied by words from Alex Salmond and Sandra White caught in congestion.

Each election campaign comes to an end and the voting public decides. They - YOU - will make a decision using some unknowable formula based on what they feel safe with, what they are used to, what they feel matters, what they know about the parties and what they think will make a difference. In succeeding elections we manage to improve each element a little more - but it takes time.

Everywhere I've been - outside university libraries, inside a Hindu temple, on the underground, on a bus, on the street, in the park, beside the pedestrian crossing; I've heard the phrase - "you've got my vote". But for all those people there will have been many others I haven't spoken to, haven't seen.

I don't know how much progress we will make (if any). What I do know is that we have campaigned better than ever before and more people will vote Green. I know that our messages are sinking in: voting matters and voting Green is the positive vote for all our futures.

In Glasgow Kelvin voters can now choose to Just Vote Green. I hope that you will be one of them.

Best wishes,

Martin