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But. I get the feeling that Sands End like many other of the wards in H&F aren't really being contested, Lib and Lab know they are unlikely to win in these very Con wards and just seem to be scrapping with each other over more marginal wards and leaving these really to paper candidates. Its been said that my home made sign "We agree with Nick" conveniently placed in my window opposite a supermarket and on a road where traffic is quite busy and moves slowly has done more for the campaign than me delivering leaflets or trying to canvass. And this is illustrative of the terrible attitude within the LibDems, of "we should try for 2nd place" and really only try where they might succeed at that and so areas like this are pretty much handed over "because they are safe" anyway.
So the terrible conservative council will stay, reduce social housing therefore increasing their share of the vote by replacing it with modern developments full of richer, more likely to be Tory people. There has been a small surge of new members in the last week so hopefully there is a chance, on the basis that for every person who joins there are probably a few more people thinking the conservatives arent for them.