After the speech it was a case of saying goodbye and good luck to friends and candidates, as I’m unlikely to see most of them before the General Election is over, and then an uneventful trip back to Reading (why do trains always run on time when I’m not on my way to work!). I then hit the Campaign trail in Reading East with Rob Wilson’s team, spreading our message:

• Acting now on debt to get the economy moving
• Getting Britain working by boosting enterprise
• Making Britain the most family-friendly country in Europe
• Backing the NHS
• Raising standards in schools
• Changing politics

And of course highlighting the clean campaign message that Rob Wilson and Green candidate Rob White have signed up to.

Of course there is much more to come, including all the main parties announcing election manifestos in the coming weeks, it’s sure to be a lively campaign…

You can find more about our campaigns by clicking below:

• Rob Wilson - Reading East
• Alok Sharma - Reading West
• Reading East Local Election Candidates and the Reading Borough Manifesto
• Reading West Local Election Candidates
• Who gave David Cameron a bump on the nose this week

Update: Here is the speech from earlier today:

According to Guido Fawkes Dorothy Jordan, an Irish actor, is David’s great, great, great, great, great grandmother.

Unusually for politicians there are no scripts and no planted questions or planted audience members, and David Cameron usually makes the point that he takes the questions one at a time, rather than the usual politician trick of taking three at a time and not answering a difficult one.

The meetings are open to anyone of any political persuasion, although seats will obviously be constrained to the size of the venue, for information on booking visit the Cameron Direct page on the Reading West Conservatives website. If you are unable to attend, or want to watch previous ones they are available here.

And just to prove there are no planted questions, take a look at this one:

I had a demonstration of the site at Conservative Spring Forum earlier this year and was very impressed. At first glance it looks like just a set of video feeds amalgamating what is going on in various political locations. However the power is in it’s voice-to-text search engine, enabling you to search for what was spoken rather than having to sit through hours of video to find the bit you want.

Click to view the full letter:

If you’ve got any problems then feel free to pop on down and we will do our best to help you out. If you can’t make it then feel free to hit the contact button at the top of this page.

The most ridiculous is this one:

Shocking, what nasty Tories. One slight problem the vast majority of the article is factually incorrect. Extremely worrying since there have been Lib Dem Councillors at every meeting involving this.

Lets look into two of the claims:

• “… Reading Conservatives withdrew their support from a community campaign and instead backed Labour plans to hand the site over to a tall hotel development by the Thames” - False. Labour recommended to Cabinet the hotel option, however this decision was “called in” by Conservatives forcing Labour to rethink it’s plans. (See this article in the Reading Post for more details)
• “Labour have backed the hotel plans throughout”. No they haven’t - thanks to the Conservative call in Labour did a u-turn at a later Cabinet meeting and now back the community option. (See this article in the Reading Post for more details).

The Liberal Democrats have yet to learn that people respond to positive articles about what they would do if they were to get into power, rather than pointless attacks against Conservatives and Labour.