Last night the Executive of the East Surrey Conservative Association re-adopted Peter Ainsworth as our candidate for Parliament at the next General Election. As a local party we are now ready for an election at any time the Prime Minister would like to call one.
Today however it looks less likely that one will be called, in the near future at least, as the polls are showing that the Brown bounce has started to subside and we are now running neck and neck with Labour in terms of popular support (albeit that unfortunately that applied to the House of Commons the result would still be a small majority for Labour in seats given the mechanics of our electoral system).
Given the Prime Minister has waited so long to get his hands on the levers of power, he would be a brave man to go the country at this stage, and given Mr Brown's cautious nature my feeling is that we still have some time to wait.
