Three days to go.

There is a good crowd at the May Day rally in Burnley’s Townley Park.

We march behind trade union banners. The traditional brass band is in front. I chat to my old friend Peter Pike, the former MP for the town. He tells me has just secured over £400,000 from the National Lottery for a homeless charity he is involved with, Emmaus. Marvellous news.

Peter is irrepressible.

As the procession winds its way through the park I see, on the left, yet another new school under construction, Unity College.

The education building programme in East Lancashire, initiated by the Labour Government, is awesome. You would expect me to say that. But, it’s true.

Yet some people out there simply shrug their shoulders and think that’s just the way it is.

At the rally, splendid speeches from Julie Cooper, who will be a real asset to Labour in the new House of Commons, and Paul Nowak from the TUC.

Both make a powerful case for returning a Labour Government.

Julie slates Burnley’s Lib Dem council and their serial financial misjudgements. She has a lot of material to mine

I take the microphone and make the point for the millionth time that the new schools and health facilities, the Sure Start centres and children’s centres didn’t drop out of a clear blue sky. It took a Labour Government to conceive, plan and build them.

I told myself at the beginning of the campaign I wanted to have no regrets afterwards, win or lose.

I want to say what I think. Tell it as it is. As I see it.

So far, all is going well.

I have relentlessly pressed the Conservative candidate, Andrew Stephenson, to talk about Ashcroft, the tax cheat. He dances away from the issue every time, desperate to talk about anyone but the man who bankrolls his campaign.

What frauds they are, the Conservatives. With their huge posters promising to crack down on benefit cheats – financed by the biggest tax cheat of them all. The Vice Chair of the Conservative Party, the tax dodger from Belize.

And so to the Liberal Democrats and their feeble champion, Afzal Anwar.

Having seen him at close quarters for three weeks I am struck by his inability to command an audience. And he is supposedly a barrister. How on earth does he manage in Court?

How can he have so little self awareness of the impact he has on those whose support he seeks?

His candidacy is, I think, a vanity project. Something to put on his CV.

There is no possibility of him getting elected. No-one who has seen his woeful performance on YouTube would consider voting for him.

And, of course, he still has questions to answer.

He refuses to say when he shipped his sons back to Pakistan for their education.

In due course, it will all come out.