Getting ready for UK's 'Super Thursday' and Red 181

In some ways Britain's electoral scene is more polarised than it has been for many years with it being widely accepted that Labour has moving to the left under Comrade Corbyn and with IDS lifting the veil on the Tories and revealing that we're not all in it together (remember that?)  perhaps the time is right for a resurgence by the  Lib Dems -?

But will they?

Should UKIP poll better than expected we'll have further seismic shifts and more Tories on platforms with Farrage's warriors.

The big prize in terms of PR is undoubtedly the London Mayoral crown but for many of us in the capital it has felt very much like Zac and Sadiq have been going through the motions and passion has certainly taken a back seat - what a shame we've not got a strong independent candidate as we had with Siobhan Benita in 2012 - if you're not happy with the front runners do look further down the list and (my advice) if you don't like what's on offer don't choose one at all.

One result that's guaranteed is that there'll be plenty of commentators reading in all sorts of subtleties and all sorts of politicians scouring the ground for crumbs of comfort - good luck to them. 

Red 181

A logo that's effective and tasteful (as you'd expect)

Great café too

London Mayor, Plot 202 and 223 Red

Our Mayoral voting details popped through the letterbox yesterday and it reminded me how disappointing (in different ways) the list of candidates was.

In 2011 there was at least  one  outstanding candidate Siobhan Benita who it seems to me identified some of the big issues facing  London and looked to solve them away from party political lines.

Boris has over the last 4 years done less damage than he might have but his eye has always been on the bigger goal, Livingstone was the archetype political animal.

With the current front runners there is too little in the form of independence (for Labour's Sadiq Khan) and a lack of true grit on the Green Issues (Zac Goldsmith).

If Sadiq distanced himself more openly from his 'official' party line to champion London or if Zac stopped negative campaigning (and produced less election landfill documents) and declared himself an 'Independent'  I could go with either of them as it is I'm going to have to look further down the list.

Plot 202

Great day yesterday and managed to get Garlic planted out - plenty of seeds started indoors and out but need to get focused as we move to the busies time of year for the allotment -eers.

Not looking too bad

Outdoors Broad beans

Indoors - Tomatoes and more

A row of garlic on Plot 202

223 Red

University pennant (or pennon) flags hanging in a row.

Those little Uni' flags