Soaking wet in Glasgow's Drygate

To the other side of Scotland today and Glasgow's Drygate. Drenched by the rain, we spent Sunday squelching up and down stairs talking about the European elections with Glaswegian voters.

Expenses dominated the press this weekend. No matter that it was Alex Salmond and the SNP in the firing line today - can it really be true as the Scotland on Sunday reports that he received £800 food allowances even when the House of Commons was not sitting? - it is our country's entire civic life that suffers. Even those of us standing for office for the first time must face the indignation of the voters.

But confonted with a dripping wet candidate on their 15th floor landing on a rainy Sunday afternoon, most Glaswegian voters we met today remained generous with their time and their opinions. And after a few hundred doorbells, knockers and buzzers and many more stairs ... today really does confirm the lesson that all politics are local. Whether it is welfare, immigration, transport, the environment or housing, that lesson applies to Europe too.