Today's the day my dad-in-law runs for office in the local elections in Budleigh Salterton (in Devon). Enlightened people in 'the Budleighs' (Budleigh Salterton and East Budleigh) are fed up with living in a place where 'if you pinned a blue rosette on a donkey people would vote it in' and where the donkeys have then gone on to do 'baaad things' (I'm not really up to speed on it all but I think their worst behaviour from Jed's point of view has been to do with planning - letting developers put whatever they want wherever they want) so some of them have decided to run as independents. Let's hope the electorate seize their opportunity.

B-)