Mr Grumpy of Buxton says – Could there be an election soon?

Well, having only just taken down the Xmas decorations and already another type of decoration is appearing around the local streets and in house windows. I awoke the other morning to find amongst the various junk mail that half a rain forest had been posted through my letter box in the form of various spin and empty promises on the usual garish colours.

Some even had pictures of the local representatives…at first I thought it was a brochure advertising a new “Halloween” film at the cinema, then I realised that it was more empty promises from yet another MP and political party. You would think that with all of those MP expenses floating around that they would at least be able to afford a comb.

I had only just recycled my empty wine bottles after a heavy night (celebrating the reduction in junk mail following the demise of Readers Digest) only to find that it had been replaced with more crap from the various political parties.

Don’t they respect the mailing preference scheme? Are they above all of the laws that apply to normal everyday folk? And is this yet another fine example from our example setters? The only saving grace is that their leaflets are about the same size as a cat litter tray liner (well I do like to recycle!)

Why do the parties have to advertise in any case!? Are we not reminded of their existence whenever we are told that we have to pay more tax, that fuel duty is rising or we read of yet another business closing down?

These parties could save a fortune on PR, because we are reminded of their very presence, bad politics and poor handling of the economy whenever we read that another “xxx” of jobs are lost.

Have you checked out the Job vacancy pages in Buxton recently? You should do, because there is even less content on there than you’d find on a tourist guide called “Tourist and Picturesque sights of Fairfield”.

But harping back to political junk mail and hoardings, what about the various examples of tree cruelty? Nailing ‘Vote xxxxxxx’ signs onto trees is hardly ecologically sound is it? That is going to get ‘Swampy’ and his crew driving up the A515 in their Toyota Prius’ assuming that they can stop before they go ploughing into one of the increasing number of closed down and forlorn looking empty shops which litter the tail end of town. Businesses whose owners have now joined the UK’s one and only remaining growth industry – UNEMPLOYMENT.

Although not being able to stop safely applied not only to Prius owners, but also to most drivers of the cars who were having great difficulty negotiating the main roads of Buxton the other night. As the temperature dropped to below freezing, we had a flurry of snow and the roads became un-gritted ice rinks. I assume that the council road gritting crew were all busy and otherwise engaged going around picking up all of the fallen ‘Vote xxxxxx’ signs and political posters which were littering the streets, because they certainly weren’t gritting the roads.

No doubt its only a matter of time before we have to witness the nauseating images of the various MP’s posing in photographs showing them in carefully staged position – scooping dog dirt and used junkie paraphernalia from out of children’s playgrounds; why do we not see them doing this at all other times, and when there isn’t a camera and a local journalist present?

Could there be an election soon?

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