Not exactly election fever ...

It's two blogs for the price of one today, as we catch up after the Easter holidays....
We rather expected our wannabe MPs to be out in farce in Boston town centre on Saturday.
As far as we could tell, only UKIP made the effort, giving away bright yellow carriers full of bumph to anyone who asked - and quite a lot of people seemed to be showing an interest ... unless they just felt the need for a spare carrier bag or two to help with their market day shopping.
Otherwise things seem strangely quiet.
A look round the websites and blogs of candidates, shows a note from Conservative Mark Simmonds telling us: "This website was established whilst I was a Member of Parliament. As Parliament has been dissolved there are no Members of Parliament until after the election on May 6 2010. Any reference on this website to my position or work as an MP is purely historical."
His Labour opponent Paul Kenny is relying on Twitter to carry his messages - short, pithy pieces which pose rhetorical questions such as: "Environment Agency are putting out leaflets warning about flood risk in Lincs-would the new flood barrage in Boston be one of the Tory cuts?"
In fact the leaflets in question are being sent out specifically in Louth, so we wonder what the relevance of the question is. Unless it's just spin to inculcate fear into us that a vote for the Conservatives would see Boston disappear under twenty feet of flood water. Doubtless Labour will promise to turn back the tides a la Canute.
Another Tweet tells us: "Labour government give Lincs county council £2.7M to repair roads. Pity council won't say how much will go to repairing potholes - why not?"
Has he asked, we wonder?
The local Lib Dem website stays calm in a crisis with nothing to say so far, but BNP candidate Boston Councillor David Owens is back blogging after an absence of more than a month with an upbeat report on increasing support.
Interestingly, whilst all the main media outlets offer assessments of the Boston and Skegness constituency, their coverage of candidates is less than thorough.
At the time of writing, the BBC, in particular, does not list the BNP as fielding candidates anywhere in Lincolnshire - even though the party is fighting all seven seats.
The final candidate - Independent Peter Wilson - is due to publish another pitch in the local papers .... possibly this week.
Watch this space for future developments.


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