Shocker ; Blue Party Don't Like Red Party, Plans For Sleepover Cancelled

In the run up to the local elections at the beginning of May and with most of the voters showing less interest than in Celebrity Love Island, the parties have deemed it neccessary for them to stir up some back and forth discussion.

The Tories have shocked no-one by saying that they don't like the Labour party's leaflet that's been distributed in Moredon and Toothill.

It's reported that the leaflet claims the Conservatives plan to sell off large swathes (that word isn't used often enough, ed) of local authority facilities.

Rumours abound that this is the start of a concerted campaign by both sides to raise money pre-election to cover the town in leaflets. It's unconfirmed that the Tories plan to sell off the a-t-i-v-and-s from their party name and rebrand themselves as 'Conserve' to appeal to environmental voters.

Labour have hit back they are toying with the idea of rebranding their party name as 'La Bour' to appeal to all those middle-class voters who plan to retire to a holiday home in the South of France.

Meanwhile the LibDems were taken by surprise as they put the leaflet straight in their recycling box without reading it assuming it was just another takeaway menu for a indian or pizza place opened on Farringdon Road.

SwindonCentric Says ; If this is how hot-under-the-collar they get about leaflets, imagine what will happen when they talk about the issues, there could be a punch up! Keep your camera phone handy!

Local Politics Resembles Dung-Heap ; Good Feed For Roses

As the local elections near, Swindon Centric isn't the only place to have become chocked with the literature of prospective councillors, all jockeying for our vote, as our web-colleagues at komadori's green corner have also found out.

We don't mind the leaflets, that's what happens at election time. This is the wonderful system that exists that allows any Tom, Dick or Harry to try and persuade us to vote for them.

What we do object to is a certain party (who shall remain nameless for now, if they continue to nark us off we'll name and shame them), who claim not only what they have achieved, but also what they haven't! They list a number of problems which they would have sorted out (these are the reasons to vote for them that they're putting across).

We have a problem with that.

If the party who distributed the leaflet are also the party in overall control of the Borough Council, how can you list stuff that you HAVEN'T done as reasons to vote for you? And when the things you haven't dealt with are graffiti and antisocial behaviour (not huge, how-do-we-land-on-the-moon conundrums), it does make you look rather ineffective. Or worse, assume that the electorate are gullible.

The Swindon Centric Blog Says ; It's said that local politics is where it's all decided. In which case, if you've had a couple of years to sort out a problem, don't campaign on the same things again and assume we've forgotten that if you haven't fixed them this time you will after May 3rd!

Its like saying to your employees, when you run the company and you're family own it ; '' Sorry we couldn't fix something, but we will next week, even though I've had a couple of years to fix it!'' Come on! If you're gonna shove dung through our doors, make sure it has a slight whiff of truthiness!