Well, folks, all my efforts came to nought.

I managed to attract just 407 votes from the Bassetlaw electorate, one of which was my own.

Was it worth it?

No, of course it wasn't. All the foot-slogging, all the expense, all the time, energy and commitment has left me with very little to show for the work I put in. Perhaps my leaflets got tossed in the bin as soon as they arrived. Perhaps a few took a look but weren't overly concerned with the things that concern me. This I know for sure: almost no one bothered to check out the contents of my blog:

http://ironwand.blogspot.com/

I'm not sure where to go from here. You try as hard as you can to tell the truths that the mainstream parties don't want told but, in the end, very few seem to give a damn. It's weird really, again and again the British people rightly complain about so many of the things I addressed during the course of the campaign. Well, my overall message was much more populist and on their side than that of the mainstream candidates, so it should have gone down well.

It didn't. It was largely ignored.

Aren't we always saying that we want the truth from our politicians? Ladies and gents, nobody can accuse me of not telling it good and hard. I dared to say the things that those who rule our lives routinely try to keep hidden. However, despite their insistence that they want honesty from their politicians, the electorate didn't seem to want it from me.

So be it.

If most are content to have even more of what's been on offer for the last thirty years, (88.1% voted for the Conservatives, New Labour or the Lib Dems) they can have it.

I've done my duty by my kith and kin.

I doubt that I'll be doing it again.

My thanks and gratitude to those who were concerned enough at the way things are now to cast their vote for me.

New Labour's last governmental act:

The party that the Bassetlaw constituents voted for (in even greater numbers) has just agreed to give between £9.6 and 13 BILLION to the EU's bail-out fund "should Spain or Portugal go the way of Greece".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/7703034/Taxpayers-face-13-billion-bailout-after-Alistair-Darling-caves-in.html

So you can add that to the trillions us non-elite Brits will, over the coming decades, be forking out. For the most part, China and the greedy moneymen that created the debt in the first place will be the beneficiaries of our indebtedness.