My favourite ever election pamphlet (what’s yours? what do you mean you don’t have one?) arrived during the last general election from the Christian Conservatives. I recognised their candidate as the person who had stood for the Conservatives at the previous local elections. However something had changed in the interim, and he had moved away from the cold bosom of the Tories and ended up in the embrace of their more right wing fire, brimstone and damnation brethren. This was explained by the opening line of the pamphlet which told us all about the chap. He was ‘recently divorced’, and so I had some sympathy for him. However the story of his divorce was unwittingly told as he spelled out his manifesto. This culminated in a call for a return of the death penalty for “the two most heinous crimes: murder and adultery.” Ah, I see…
I nearly voted for him anyway, just because I wanted a spiteful, reactionary MP. In the end that’s exactly what I ended up with.
