IS ANBODY THERE?

Despite polling day being less than two weeks away, we have had very little candidate press coverage in the Shields Gazette. Although we have a varied roster this year with the presence of 6 BNP candidates, the letters page has been virtually empty of comment and candidate profiles have been non existent. Surely voter apathy hasn’t spread to the pens of those illustrious journalist’s in Chapter Row? Let’s hope that the articles are all banked up and ready to be printed closer to the election.

Talking of the BNP, it would appear that they are not the worthless bunch of idiotic morons that I have assumed them to be. Crackpot sympathisers of the far right party have hacked into somebody’s wireless internet connection and used the account to send untraceable threatening emails. Pretty clever stuff really, considering that half of them can’t even fasten their shoe laces. It does show that we are entering a new era of computer fraud and manipulation, and that the idea of internet and email voting as a way of increasing turnouts may not be such a good idea as some thought. If a bunch of reprobates like the BNP can achieve this, what would the covert committees of Blair’s Number 10 bunker be able to achieve? Watch out Gordon, victory may yet elude you!

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