I haven't been tweeting or blogging much from the Scottish Liberal Democrats conference in Perth because it's been both a busy conference for me, 12 hours in a basement meeting room, The Old Library meeting MPs and candidates and their campaign teams and the fact that the mobile phone reception is so awful, not just in the Library but generally around the conference centre and the Royal George Hotel.
A great day on Friday with a great speech from Nick Clegg and a fantastic photo session with a stack of our candidates signing the NUS pledge on tuition fees.
Yesterday saw a fantastic speech from Leader Tavish Scott and a great election presentation by Alistair Carmichael MP where apparently even I got a mention and a round of applause - many thanks AC and the people in the audience, much appreciated.
Well, today is another busy morning and still great debates and speeches but I have more meetings to do so doubt I will make the hall, but you never know, I might even get to visit the exhibition!
There is a great buzz here, much better than last year, and as you know we went on and won the MEP seat when pundits and journalists were writing is off, well let's see where we go from here this weekend.
We are in second place to Labour here in Scotland, with Cameron's Conservatives only having a solitary MP in Scotland, and he is under threat from a Lib Dem surge and the SNP being irrelevant in Westminster elections polling day, whenever it may be will be an interesting election.
How many MPs will we have after polling day? I am very confident we will have more than we do now, I know that because voters are switching to us all across Scotland, getting fed up of the UK red/blue swingometer and it is Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats offering an alternative choice for people.
Let us see, but we will go from Perth with a spring in our step and fired up to campaign, campaign, campaign.
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Andrew, I think you are one of the most commendable people I can have ever come across. You are a perpetuel optimist. I wish it were so but you are still high on the the Entonox atomsphere of Perth. The fact is as you posted previously a succes will be to retain all seats and gain one or possibly two - to keep the star turn that is Jo Swinson is vital and with a huge bit of luck Fred might do the business but Katy for all her wondeful efforts is going to struggle without Charlie K in charge and with a now established SNP presence and also an actually pretty decent sitting MP. You have my admiration, its a God given thing to be so positive - well done!
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