Election fever? No! More like a nasty cold

Theoretically, we're in the grip of election fever, but it seems to us that it's more of a nasty chill than anything else.
Here we are, only three days away from European, County and Local elections, and what's going on by way of wooing
our votes?
A few leaflets have fluttered through doors, and here and there "vote for X" signs have appear in gardens and at the roadside.
But where is the spirit? Where is the enthusiasm to persuade the voter in the street to get out to the polling stations on June 4th?
It seems to us that the parties are wallowing in indifference.
Take the BBI, for instance.
They have a blog, which, so close to polling day, you would expect to see brimming with up to date news and information about the party and its candidates. But pay a visit to getbostonmoving.blogspot.com and you'll find that nothing's moved for ages - not since Tuesday 29th May 2007 in fact - a full two years ago.
Needless to say the list of elected members is hopelessly out of date, and there is nothing on the party's "achievements" since it was elected.
We note in the local press that the BBI leader Richard Austin is "stepping down" from the Lincolnshire Independents party in his bid to retain his county council seat.
Yet according to the Lincolnshire Independents website, Mr Austin is still their treasurer, although in terms of communicating via the world wide web, he remains as silent as the BBI blogsite.
Click on his mugshot "to get upto (sic) date information" and you are greeted with two test messages - one dated August 12th 2006, and the other dated 8th May 2008.
Click on the link marked "Richard Austin homepage" and you're greeted with the information "In the creation ... This domain name is held in reserve for a customer of The Web Builder."
Another political blog in the doldrums is that of Felicity Ransome who failed in her bid to win the Boston Coastal seat in July last year. Although she is again standing for UKIP, her blog remains accessible but locked in time and has not been updated since.
It's difficult to understand how individual politicians and entire parties can so conspicuously fail to grasp the opportunities offered by the internet.
But perhaps their failure tells us something about whether they're worth voting for.
Coincidentally, we received an e-mail from bypass campaigner Mike Borrill in a similar vein.
He writes: "There seems to be some dual identities parading their credentials in the forthcoming elections.
"Councillor Richard Austin is standing as a candidate for the Boston Bypass Independents yet he is Treasurer and in the Cabinet of the Lincolnshire Independents, which from their site appears to be a new political body in Lincolnshire.
"This seems to be another piece of changing the face of democracy by the BBI and if one or all of them get elected (those that are candidates) will they then immediately change to Lincolnshire Independents?
"I wonder if there is some obscure law preventing you standing as a candidate for one party when you strictly speaking are a member of another.
"As Councillor Austin is in my 'patch' I am at a loss to know which Austin to vote for! But no, I will use my Government scrappage allowance and get a new model, one that knows which way to go!"

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