Now the election has finally been called, I want to reflect a little bit on the campaign so far.

It feels like we've been working towards May 6th for a long time!

Since I was selected as the General Election candidate for Brighton Pavilion in 2007 and the campaign started to take the shape it has today, all I have seen from staff, members and supporters has been hard work and the burning conviction that we can do it.

The campaign is really standing on the shoulders of giants - the local party and Keith Taylor did an enormous amount of work for the 2005 general election, and it's thanks to them that we have been able to make the incredible progress we have.

We really are trying to do something extraordinary.

If, as the polls and the bookies predict, we elect the first Green MPs on May 6th, we will truly have made British history.

We have a responsibility to make this breakthrough, not just to our voters in Brighton, but to those all over the UK who want to see Greens in Westminster.

We could never have got this far without the time, effort and dedication of local members and supporters.

Every weekend, every evening they have been out in droves, whether in sunshine or, as in December, trudging and skidding through the snow and ice to talk to residents.

I've met a lot of inspiring people so far on the campaign trail, spoken to a lot of journalists and met many local residents over the years, as an MEP as well as a parliamentary candidate, and our key election messages keep coming up - Green policy is to create one million new jobs. It is to increase investment to make sure we stay out of recession.

It is to keep the NHS public, it is to scrap tuition fees for students, it is to bring in a non-means tested pension of £170 per week.

When people look at our policies, they like what they see, as the poll done by 'Vote For Policies' website clearly shows here.

After 13 years of a failed Labour government, where society is more unequal than it was when they begun, people are desperate for something better.

Where Greens are elected, numbers rise quickly as people like what they see - principled, hard working politicians who work for their constituents because they believe in what they are working for - fairness for all, not privileges for the wealthiest.

People are realising they they are not voting for a Government in the general election, but rather than they are voting for who will represent them in Parliament.

Click here for my comments on the calling of the election today.