@gracielacey
That's the badger. No spatula used here & it got caught under the door as I closed it when I got in. I realised it was a fake straight off purely as hand-writing letters to the entire constituency would've left her looking like the Python's Black Knight as she wore away her limbs to stumps. That's totally a thing that happens when you write too much, I'm sure. Fairly sure it almost happened to me at uni.
The fake newspapers & magazines are spectacularly irksome, yes. I really don't know who the Lib Dems think they might be going to kid with their repeated assertions that Labour voters (especially the lifelong ones) are running to them in droves 2 minutes after elections that returned not only another Labour mayor but turned the ENTIRE Council to Labour.
The leaflet from your woman with the trident logo (can't actually remember the party name - "British Union Of Fascists Was Already Taken" or something like that) was absolutely foul. Apart from the amusing inability to use English properly that made it sound as if the Lib Dems would be within their rights to have another ref & repeal Brexit if that's what the result reflected, rather than the "the Lib Dems are going to steal our blue passports!" rantette it was meant to be. Whoever edited it didn't seem to understand the purpose of bolding sections of text, either - it genuinely looked as if they'd thought: "I've seen that on other leaflets & it looks good, better do it to show we're A Serious Party... ok, picked out a few words here & there, done!" They also used their dodgy trident logo as their bullet point. It was like an early 00s internet site made with a free programme. But sinister & islamophobic, rather than, say, having smiley face bullet points on a blog; or Trefoil bullet points (now Strictly Forbidden by Girlguiding) on the contents page taking you to the different bits on games/crafts/camp & holiday themes (etc).
They've managed to find us a Kipper-Of-Colour, too. Seriously, in a constituency that voted overwhelmingly for Remain & seems to have lots of active campaigning against it going on, you'd think UKIP (& Horrendous Racist Party) wouldn't even bother. UKIP are literally trying the "we're not racist, LOOK, we have a coloured friend candidate" (you know that's the word that most of them would use... well, there have been enough documentaries & enough press coverage to tell us that there's a good chance...) thing. Ah well, hopefully they'll both lose their deposit.
I'm very sorry to see Heidi go - she's been an excellent constituency MP: she fought like mad to save the hospital; she's been relentlessly pursuing the issue of the train disservice SEFail [don't] run; & she's really active in the community all the time, she doesn't just bob up when elections roll round. She was brilliant when she visited my Brownies when Girlguiding ran a campaign round the 2015 elections highlighting some of the issues that affect girls & young women - she hosted my Rangers at the Commons, too, to talk about the same topic. She also took time out from canvassing in the last election to come & plant trees with my Brownies in a local park (one of which = a memorial tree for a Brownie's mother). She didn't just waft about, either, she was right in there with a backhoe, ending up very muddy... Really REALLY hope whoever replaces her is as engaged with the constituency & as committed to the people in it & their needs.