Hushings, rather than hustings

Yet another candidate for the Boston North West county council by-election on 15th October has pulled out - leaving a race strictly along national party political lines.
After putting his hat in the ring before nominations closed, Independent challenger Richard Leggott, who also sits on Boston Borough Council, withdrew from the contest last week ... offering just two words - "job done" by way of a comment.
The remaining candidates are now:
Andrea Jenkyns, the previously successful Conservative candidate, who won on 4th June but was forced to resign on a technicality uncovered by Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate Paul Kenny ....
Labour's Pam Kenny, wife of Paul, and also a previous contender ...
David Owens, Boston borough councillor for Fenside, which shares much of the Boston North West footprint, who is the British National Party's new choice to fight the seat ...
... and Mike Sheridan-Shinn, another new candidate, picked to fight the seat for the Liberal Democrats.
With just over two weeks to go to election day, it's simply not possible to describe the contest as an election frenzy - at least as far as use of the internet is concerned when we last looked at 6am today.
The last entry to Miss Jenkyns's personal blog, which has been updated on and off since she resigned, was on 1st September, whilst her "candidate" site remains unchanged since her resignation was announced.
Councillor Owens has updated his blog regularly - but as yet has failed to touch on anything to do with the October election.
If Mrs Kenny is using the internet as a campaign vehicle, it is well hidden from any potential voters - certainly we can't find it.
And, aside from announcing his candidacy on 21st September, Mike Sheridan-Shinn has done nothing else by way of online campaigning.
And we're supposed to make up our minds who to support ....
The full results for Boston North West on 4th June were:
Andrea Jenkyns - Conservative 463
Colin Westcott - British National Party 374 Alison Austin - Boston Bypass Independents 283
Richard Leggott - Independent 279 Pam Kenny - Labour 205
Paul Appleby - Liberal Democrat 130
Andrew Bakewell -Independent 82 You can write to us at boston.eye@googlemail.com Your e-mails will be treated in confidence and published anonymously if requested.