Mat Bowles

In safe seats, getting a partisan vote out is difficult, and the parties aren't going to put resources in.

I'm working the three-way marginal I live in.

But if someone isn't going to vote anyway (and there are lots of people thinking that way), then getting them to do something positive makes some difference, increases overall turnout, and if enough people do it in even the safest of seats, those elected may actually notice.

I care not one jot what some Tory blog commenter thinks, if (s)he's repeating that meme (s)he doesn'[t understand the system well enough.

I care about influencing those elected; this is a way of getting through to even the safest of the Tory squirearchy in the rottenest of boroughs.

And it appeals to my barely partisan anarchist tendencies.