If Lamposts Had Votes...
Unlike most of England, it seems that in Scotland you can put up party political posters pretty much anywhere you like on the public highway. You see posters on bridges, telegraph poles and (my particular favourite) lamposts.Now I'm not sure how the typical lampost votes, but if lamposts had votes then the Scottish Christian Party would be going great guns in the areas I visited over the past 7 days.
Sadly for them (and happily for the rest of us), at the present time, lamposts have not yet received suffrage.
However, putting this small detail to one side, even in politics boys will be boys and there is often a competition to see who can get their poster up the highest on the lampost.
Now why people would want to see who has got the biggest step-ladder is beyond me, but for the record it seems that - going on the evidence provided on the right - the SNP have the longest at the current time.
They must be very happy about that.
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Labels: election, Labour, lampost, scotland, Scottish Christian Party, SNP, step-ladder
posted by Kerron @ 4:08 PM
7 Comments:
I know someone who always says the same about posters in fields..."If cows had votes then the Tories would be doing well" Thankfully, they don't
Although, in fairness, at least those Tory farmers own those fields!
I remember those lamposts well from the 2005 General Election and you are right, there's an arm-race approach to their deployment. Using a precariously balanced step-ladder I clambered up those lamposts to ensure that my MP's banners were above the Lib Dem and SNP ones (without accidentally knocking one of those down, of course...).
I think the local activists got some amusement from sending a snotty-nosed Westminster Village type up a step-ladder, especially when you'd get the occasional enlightened comment ('Nu Labour b*astards') from a white van man while you were doing it.
Happens in Northern Ireland as well. When I was in Belfast in Aug 1998, there were still posters on lamposts from the Good Friday agreement referendum
Yes,
I've many happy memories of clambering up stepladders and balancing on tip toe at arms reach to get the poster up as high as possible.
This serves several purposes; to prevent your filthy opponents taking the poster down; higher prominence and as aversion therapy for my vertigo. Number three, however, did not work and i've got pins and needles in my hands just thinking about it.
The best bit of course is when your highly trained 'second' whose only role in life is to hold the stepladder buggers off to chat to someone or to go and pick their nose leaving you at the mercy of the elements.
Those truly were the days.
"Sadly for them (and happily for the rest of us), at the present time, lamposts have not yet received suffrage."
I don't understand your comment.
Are you insinuating that no-one who reads this blog supports them ?
Why not ?
I'm not insinuating anything, I am saying that lamposts don't have votes.
Although I would maintain that the Scottish Christian Party does not and will not have any popular support - but time, and the polls, will tell.
I'm also fairly sure that very few SCP members would regularly read this blog, but that wasn't really my point.
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