Hello again there, friends. It's Harry for the Lotus Seaters, where it is the middle of the day coming up to half past one for the meeting of the restore canvases.

Most of the personnel are here. We've been having a word with them inside. Middle of the day is prime territory for canvassing. This is where they're going to do their big push for today. This is Tuesday, the 9th of June. And I'm excited to see what goes on, see one of these

slightly bigger canvassing runs. We've been speaking to everybody. Like yesterday, the mood is

very positive. Everybody's really enthusiastic about what they're doing. Spoke to some people,

everybody yesterday again, very enthusiastic saying they're getting very positive responses from Restore. What I was told in there was an estimate of the kinds of responses that

they've been getting on the doors was about 30 to 35% reform, 20 to 25% restore, try not to get

run over here, and about 25 to 30% labor. Now that is off the top of the head calculations and estimates. So given the off the top of the head estimates that I was getting, it sounds like it really is a three day split with everything to pay for, play for over the next week and a half as we're leading up to polling days. So these next few days are going to be critical for the canvases to try and turn people around as well. We are hopefully going to get to meet Rebecca, the Restore candidate today, Rebecca Shepard. So I'm really looking forward to hearing what she has to say. And we might even be able to speak to some of the members of the public today as well. So I'm excited to hear what they think of this by-election and who they're supporting. Anyway, we'll carry on and let you know how it goes. Caleb, very nice speaking to you. So are you a local of Wigan? Yeah. Yes. And we approached you and you said that you're not too familiar with what's going on with the by-election, but you do, you have seen some of the stuff going on with Andy Burnham. You said you've seen some of the footage of him. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, just from a locals perspective, somebody who's not that tuned into what's going on. What's your, what's your impression of him from that? What's your impression of what's going on? I'm sure you've probably heard that there is the election going on and seen it in the newspapers. What's just your general impressions as a local? It's okay. He seems to be all right. You know, it seems to be wanting to make change of Makerfield, Platt Bridge, a few other areas. I don't know specifically the areas, but I know

Platt Bridge and Makefield, there are two big ones that he wants to make changes on.

Yeah, so he's been mayor of Greater Manchester since about 2017. So obviously that's Manchester

itself and all the surrounding areas, including Wiggin. How would you say that the area has changed

since 2017? Is it changed, stayed the same, improved, got worse?

Did you give us some general impression?

Of what, Wiggin itself?

Yes.

I mean, they seem to be making, seems to be wanting to make big changes.

You know, King Street's turned into a health bar and a fitness place.

That seems alright, you know, obviously, it's not the best for drinking, but hopefully there's got me some nice big changes to Wigan. All right then. And have you, obviously, Andy Burnham's associated with Labour. Have you seen anything from any of the other parties? Have you been approached by canvassers from any of the other parties at all? No, not personally, no. Well, that's all right then. Well, thank you very much for your time. We've decided to come over to Wiggin Town Center and take a look around now. Only parts of Wigan are part of the constituency of Makerfield, mainly the southern portions of it. But Wigan itself is still under the mayoral governance of Andy Burnham. So we thought we'd come around,

check out what the place is like, see if we can speak to some of the people on the street who might be able to tell us what they think of Andy Burnham, what they think of the by-election. And also, it's just interesting to take a look around because Wiggin Town Centre from the brief look that we've had of it is very much indicative of modern Britain that we all live in today.

If you've been to one town centre across the country, look that we've had of it is very much indicative of modern Britain that we all live in today.

If you've been to one town centre across the country, then the likelihood is you know what

to expect from Wigan. There's a mix of old and new, old beautifully built architecture and municipal

buildings, newer grey blocks, as opposed to a lot of the outskirts of the town,

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