With my task a little unclear, I hopped on to my motorbike and headed down to Weymouth to visit the football club. I say unclear, because I was working from one phone call to my office, asking me to support the SAR helicopter at Portland, which I have doing since it was threatened with closure. As it happened, I learnt that petitioners were due to gather more signatures, which is good news. I did, however, meet and chat to Ralph Richards, a club director, who updated me on future plans. The results of the police commissioner vote is through and the independent candidate won in Dorset. I wish him well, although I disagree with this new style of monitoring the police. We lost Corby, too, with Labour securing a comfortable majority of c7,000. It was an inevitable result, but I don't put it all down to mid-term blues as the Party PR machine is putting out. We Conservatives have got to start making our message clear, even at the expense of the Coalition, which is doing the country no favours in the long term. The violence in Gaza is worrying and who knows where it will lead now that Egypt is under a different regime and one that is instinctively sympathetic to Hamas.