Just 7 days to go until polling day. A whole week before we can all slump in a chair and relax - or more accurately until all of us except one can relax. One of us will be the Parlamentary representative for the largest constituency in England and will have a huge responsibility.
They will be pitchforked into Westminster and will spend a week or so finding the right doors to open, both literally and figuratively. It will be easy to become absorbed into the glamour of the Westminster machine and to forget the people who sent them there. This is why it's so important to choose someone who is rooted in our area. Someone who cannot disappear into the machine and whose friends, colleagues and family will constantly remind them why they are there.
(Regular readers of this blog will realise that we seem to have lost a day somewhere, don't worry - it's in there somewhere!)
