“GOOD luck to you, mate,” one resident of Yare Way in Witham tells Ukip candidate Garry Cockrill.

As Mr Cockrill walks away a broad grin spreads over his face.

“I have had leaflets thrown back at me,” he said: “But there hasn’t been any hostility today.”

This is the very last road on Mr Cockrill’s 35,000 leaflet-drop run and from his point of view he might have saved the best ‘til last.

Without fail, every resident who has opened the door has told him they are voting Ukip, or are at least thinking about it.

Freddy Claeys is originally from Belgium, but said the EU was heading out of control.

He said: “I am thinking about Ukip, but my concern is there are too many parties and none of them will be able to do much.”

Another supporter said she was concerned about immigration.

She said: “I am watching it all and I’m going to make an informed choice. I have got nothing against immigrants but I don’t think we should be losing our rights to jobs.

“If we sling them back home there would be enough money in the NHS and enough houses.”

Mr Cockrill explained Ukip did not propose to deport anyone, but that new social housing would go only to UK citizens.

“Hallelujah,” she replied.

Mr Cockrill said: “I have had people saying that kind of thing, but we are not going to send anybody out and we would continue to honour asylum seekers as well.”

Elsewhere, a man still clutching his tomato ketchup bottle comes to the door after Mr Cockrill notices a poster of himself in the window.

The man does not have much to say but asks if Mr Cockrill can come back with a bigger poster.

Yet another supporter, Limara Ford, 27, said she has made up her mind to vote Ukip because of the NHS.

She said: “The NHS is a massive thing for me because a lot of parties say they are going to do certain things but don’t, and I think Nigel Farage will do what he says.”