the facts if you think otherwise. The point of this ramble is that paper throwing execises can and do work, as the Lib Democraps have also proven, but they are no substitute for a door to door canvas with the results and attitudes recorded It is often claimed that poor weather depresses the Labour vote disproportionately, but I'm not aware of any evidence that this is so. Someone with a bit of time could do the math fairly easily - tabulate a few hundred by-elections held on days that can be identified as wet/dry and then run a regression against the change in Labour vote. It's not that the weather affects Labour's vote more - it's that Labour voters, according to all the polling evidence, have a lower likelihood of voting than Tories (for obvious socio-economic reasons) so any time that turnout is reduced, the net gainers are the Tories.