It’s hard to believe that it’s May already. Two days before the closest General Election for a generation if the press are to be believed and I’ve found myself unable to stop thinking about my local candidates for reasons entriely unrelated to their party politics.
I’ve got George Galloway of the Respect Party touring the area on an open top bus, I can only think of him offering to be ‘the cat’ on Celebrity Big Brother and Jim Fitzpatrick the labour candidate seems to be best known for walking out of a Muslim wedding earlier in the year.
I’ve barely seen any mailshots from the Liberal democrats which suggests maybe they’re not holding out much hope. The same can’t be said for the conservatives who’ve been on a direct mail and billboard frenzy. Ian from Congleton is about 20 ft tall on the Highway, pretty much opposite The Times/Sun offices. Congleton is in Cheshire but I doubt most the people driving toward the Rotherhithe tunnel care that much. I just think, oh I used to live near there.
Some boundary changes mean they’ve got a shout as the nice bits of Wapping and St. Katherine’s dock are now in my area. I shop in that Waitrose, does that mean I’m under some kind of unspoken voting contract?
I had been tracking the direct mail I’d received relating to the election but I have to say it all got too much. So my only comment is this: Neither the Labour or Conservative parties used Royal Mail to send their post, this made me a little bit sad.
That’s probably enough politics and so to some other things from this blog title…
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