Latest Lib Dem 'Focus' flyer through the door. Am I missing something? To quote Alex Feakes in the flyer, the Lib Dems saw a "big increase" in their vote in Lewisham West and Penge. Most parties saw a reasonable increase in the number of votes they got thanks to the boundary change and a 10.5% increase in the turnout over 2005. Lib Dems share of vote increased by just 1%. "Big"?

Second, "we strengthened our second place". The boundary change makes this one a bit difficult to judge. Yes the difference in share between the Lib Dems and Tories has gone from 0.9% in the old Lewisham West constituency to 2.6% after the boundary change. But the increase in the Tory share was 3.9% compared to the Lib Dems 1%. In the run up to the election the Lib Dem literature always stated that "the tories couldn't win round here". The figures don't back that up as far as I'm concerned.

As someone who cant envisage voting Tory I feel odd posting that last bit. Alex, Philip, I know you read these forums so feel free to put me straight. At the moment I feel distrusting of the literature you're putting through my letterbox.