At the other end of the constituency, Hendry is encountering heavy levels of support in the Dalneigh council housing estate on the outskirts of Inverness, with a forest of yacht masts on the nearby Caledonian canal.
Twelve years later, in 2005, when I was standing as a parliamentary candidate in the marginal constituency of Watford, I again encountered this group handing out flyers outside the local mosque.
Thus, to answer the question of what role patents have played in public perceptions of Myriad, we have sought to compare Myriad's corporate history with Genentech's development of Herceptin® with significant patent protection on a novel product, which encountered a very different reception from a similar constituency at more or less the same time.
After a visit to the constituency, the Labour MP Tom Watson stirred the pot by saying: "I have never encountered such animosity on the doorstep against an incumbent MP – particularly one as high-profile".
Susan Booysen, author of the interim report Change and 'New' Politics in Zimbabwe for Freedom House, said she encountered complaints that the MDC had lost touch with grassroots constituencies, whereas Zanu-PF was still visible and fighting party political battles there.
"I have never encountered such animosity on the doorstep against an incumbent MP – particularly one as high-profile," said Watson, who has visited the constituency recently.
Sarah Teather, who on Tuesday was one of the pitifully few (four) Lib Dems voting against the welfare bill, described the so-called "skivers" she encounters in her constituency office: "People who come to my constituency office these days for help with some kind of error in their benefits often spend the first few minutes trying to justify their worth.
Many of the most severe problems I encounter in my constituency are around mental health problems, lack of support, lack of resources, severe problems both for the patients themselves and the carers.
This adult constituency, however, does not daily encounter the broken pencil sharpeners, the burned out light bulbs, the leaking roofs, the cancelled field trips, the eliminated athletic events, or the empty towel dispensers found at school.
10.50pm GMT Mary Creagh says she did not need to see a programme about poverty, because she encounters these stories in her constituency surgery all the time.
