Good morning. I'm Luca from the Lotus Citors reporting to you from Abrams, the District of Abrams, here in Makersfield.

On my way up to Wigging yesterday, I was delayed by conspiracy by Big Rail, and now it seems that big weather is also trying to stop our activists on the ground.

But I can tell you it's not working. We've just been over to the forward command center for where our activists are going out in the ground,

otherwise known of course as the local pub, and they're now going about throughout the day,

you know, knocking on the doors and canvassing around the local constituency.

One of the things that's really encouraging as well is that even in weather such as this,

we had about 12, you know, dozen, 13 people there ready to go out campaigning.

And of those, about half of them were in fact first-time canvases as well,

who'd never done anything like this before.

And so the fact that they've come out in this weather on the Thursday morning is very, very

encouraging indeed, and we look forward to keeping an eye on them throughout the day and reporting

back to you on what we see on the door.

Well, we're back at the pub after a few hours campaigning out in the pouring

rain. I'm suitably sodden from it all. And honestly, some really encouraging stuff seeing on the

door. You know, people have been received, our canvases going out there and, you know, having

genuinely long conversations. There seems to be a genuine amount of public interest on the door.

Obviously, this is from constituencies and streets that haven't had restore Britain canvases knocking on

them so far. And very, very encouraging to see. One thing I will say is that I've been interested

to see how many people actually actually locally as well, are sticking

firmly to labour in all of this as well. I have personally thought that perhaps after the

Boris 2019 election and the collapse of the Red Wall, the voters might be a little bit more

pliable and a little more you know, more open-minded

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