Thursday, December 13, 2007

I’ll be glad when tomorrow comes and we’ll no longer be pestered by political canvassers. Yes, we’ve an election in this ward tomorrow. December is an odd time to have one but it has become necessary due to the exploits of our previous councillor, who was also Mayor for the Borough of Chelmsford.

You could, I suppose, call him a Naughty Boy. Personally I would call him a Complete Idiot. Let’s face it, if you are Mayor and are using a Council’s computer on official business then you don’t download child pornography onto that computer. Of course the police found out and undertook a formal investigation. And then the local media found out and so on and so forth. Finally he resigned as our councillor and as the Mayor.

There are four political parties all desperate to fill his place: the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib-Dems and even UKIP. The trouble for us is that they don’t have every ward in the Borough on which to disseminate their efforts and so this time everything is concentrated just on our ward. So we are being pestered and pestered. Hardly a day goes by without at least one paper or leaflet being thrust through our letterbox. I’ve had telephone calls and one candidate knocked on the door. Yesterday I handed to the Husband a handwritten envelope addressed to him that I assumed was a Christmas card. It wasn’t, it was another leaflet.

We’ve even had a leaflet from the UKIP candidate which really amused us. Talk about a total lack of understanding of the extent of power held by a local councillor: he clearly thinks that being elected will make him controller of our government. But other than that light relief we are just exasperated at the amount of stuff they have sent us. The paper recycling sack is full of it.

Oh well. It’s a prime lesson how the actions on one can affect the many. And the sooner tomorrow comes the better.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Adele, Occasionally it astonishes me how incredibly STUPID some of our elected officials can be! He deserves what he gets on this.

We are almost a year away from our presidential election. I am sick to death of campaigning! I want my government to put a limit of six months to ANY run for office, and I'd like there to be financial limits on what can be spent on advertising. It's such a waste of time to let this go on for more than two years! I don't think elected officials who are running for office get anything done in their present job, so they should either limit the time allowed to campaign, or require that they leave their current position if they wish to run for another. While we're at it....let's limit the number of terms they can serve, or the number of years.

I guess this must be a sore spot for me. I empathize with you over all the pestering!

Buffy

Adele said...

Buffy, I totally agree. Over here there's a Register for people who do what he did and so his name will be scarred for the rest of his life.

I've seen reports of the US presidential election process on tv and I was staggered how long the whole thing seems to go on for. Don't the electorate get fed up with the whole thing.