'Clean campaign' in Norwich South
All the candidates in have signed a "clean campaign" document promising a positive fight.
, Labour's candidate, believes that Nick Clegg's performance on the on Thursday has forced everyone to be positive: "there is an anti-politics sense and I am really pleased that the leaders' debate helped to counter that. We all have to push the positives. If we all end up slagging each other off, it just reinforces the sense of anti-politics."
, fighting this, the number one target seat for the Green Party in the east, says the debate has woken people up to the fact that there are real alternatives: "people are now starting to look elsewhere.
"They're realising that there needs to be Green MPs in Parliament and Norwich is the place to start."
The Conservative candidate for Norwich South, , believes people are not anti-politics.
He says: "I'm detecting a real interest in this election, because there's actually a choice in a way there wasn't last time, when it was only a question of how big Blair's majority would be."
He believes there's a real chance of a Tory government and lots of undecideds are heading his way.
Simon Wright, Norwich South's Lib Dem candidate, is over the moon about the party's surge in the polls following Nick Clegg's appearance.
"I have been amazed at the number of people who watched the debate and thought Nick Clegg was great and are going to vote Lib Dem as a result."
Maybe there is change in the air which will translate into votes, maybe not.
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Comment number 1.
At 21st Apr 2010, bowwave wrote:My reading is that many people at this election are taking time out to think what they would really like to see for this consituency and for the Norwich region in the years ahead.
All four candidates who have signed up to a 'clean campaign' seem, on the face of it, a credit to the political class. A close, photo-finish result in Norwich South looks increasingly on the cards.
Let's very much hope the winner has that extra vision to see through all the Westminster smoke of recent times to a much cleaner future for the Norwich area.
'Business much as usual' will surely do us very few favours in the long run.
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