Beauty and the beast

……or how to scare the kids

I suppose I ought to be able to get used to this sort of thing, you know political canvassers and activists banging on your door in South Shields at this time of night.

“But it’s the only time you ever see them”

I hear you objecting,

“they never bother unless there’s an election on”

Yes, I know, I know, but generally they don’t bother at all around here, especially the Labour Party. So I was a little surprised at the sort of effort they are throwing at West Park ward. As soon as I saw the faces behind the glass I just knew it was time to warn the kids to hide behind the sofa, it was the candidate “Bob the builder” along with Ernie Gibson and Joyce Welsh. I was beginning to question what my new spectacles were seeing. My immediate thoughts were that they must be very confident of winning in Whiteleas, my second thoughts were that they’d already given it up as lost to Terry Haram, otherwise they wouldn’t be foot slogging down here.

I tell you, it was frightening, well political people just never knock on doors in West Park do they?

It felt like a scene from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”

West Park Candidates

• Bryan Leonard Atkinson - Green Party

• Enid Catherine Hetherington - South Tyneside Progressives

• Quintin Ian Patrick Smith - Conservative

• Bob Watters - Labour.

Whiteleas Candidates

• Terry Haram - Independent

• Doreen Purvis - Labour

• Alan George Smith - BNP

• Christopher Taylor - Conservative

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