It started with a very tasteful one for the Conservatives on someone’s wall – not just any old common or garden wall, however, a retaining one well placed on a corner.
Then a small Labour poster appeared on a wooden pole in a front garden further up the hill.
The house opposite sprouted 2 UKIP signs in the garden.
By next evening, back over the road, the house next door to the first house had sprouted a small forest of Labour signs in neighbourly solidarity.
Next time I came home there was just one sign in each garden.
I think there is probably some regulation about this – policed by opposing party workers if not The Authorities. A friend of mine grumbled each time she was told to take her sign down – this used to happen only on election day, mind, as her house was opposite the church hall which was used as a polling station.
Well we are a marginal, and one in which Liberals do not stand any real chance – there has been some disarray in the party. Which is odd, in one way, because we share part of our boundary with Sheffield Hallam whose MP is of course, one Nick Clegg, and an even younger Master Clegg used to be one of our MEPs. But then we share boundaries with 9 constituencies in all; people living a mile up the road from our side of the constituency were represented by the grandeur of Sir Nicholas Winterton. Otherwise it is Labour to the north, Tories to the south, with small Lib Dem enclaves to the east & west in suburban Sheffield & Manchester. Does this give us the claim to most marginal constituency - or are we just the hole in the donut?
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