I always feel bad that I never seem to have the time to keep this blog updated as much as I should do. Although to be honest I do wonder whether or not those who do write daily blogs are really telling us that they don't actually have that much to do!   

Anyway, I have been away on my summer holiday over the weekend, on a canal boat with some friends in Warwickshire. The weather was great and I got a good break from politics and all that. The weather was great although I am not sure I did my fair share of the locks though and for some reason nobody seemed keen that I should steer the boat!

I did however buy the papers on Sunday to read an interesting marginal seats opinion poll which not only said that Brigg and Goole would easily turn blue if there was an election tomorrow but also that this area was presently seeing the biggest swing to the Conservatives of anywhere in the country and that on the current swing Scunthorpe would also turn Conservative!

Now, I never get excited about polls as they really mean nothing when you consider that we are 18 months from a probable General Election. This poll did however confirm our own polling and also confirm what we are finding on the doorstep at the moment. When you consider that at the 2007 local elections the Conservative share of the vote in Brigg and Goole (both in the East Riding and in the North Lincs parts) was higher than in 2003 and that we seem to be finding an awful lot of people on the doorstep saying they will never vote Labour again, then it does look as though local people are turning away from Labour.

I prefer not to think too much about polls as I prefer to just carry on working hard and let people make their own minds up. I was however surprised to read that it predicted a Conservative victory in Scunthorpe too. I guess only time will tell!