At Long Last....

Despite living in the middle of an apparently hotly contested constituency, the only election bumf I'd received was a puny leaflet from the Greens. Despite all the trouble in Globe Road and Whitechapel, it seemed that all the campaigning was taking place through the media. Well, yesterday I got off the tube only to have a Labour flier pushed into my hand (rather impersonal, don't you think?) and then I arrived home to find I'd had a Respect pamphlet pushed through the door. Funny they were on the same day! Even more funny that they coincide with this:

Oona King Deletes 'Muslim' in Leaflets

Labour's Oona King was accused of double standards today after dropping references to Muslims in leaflets for predominantly white areas.
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Two of Ms King's recent campaign leaflets contain key differences.

Under a panel contrasting her Commons voting record with that of her rival Mr Galloway, one of the leaflets states: "Oona voted to protect Muslims from hate crimes."

But in the other leaflet it says: "Oona voted to make incitement to religious hatred a crime."

The following section appears in the leaflet for Muslims: "Ken Livingstone added: 'Working hard for local people has not stopped Oona getting the Government to increase funding to Bangladesh. And her brave stand against human rights abuses of Palestinians has made her a leading campaigner for Palestinian rights'."

By contrast, in the other leaflet that passage has been replaced with: "Ken Livingstone added: 'Oona has been a great supporter of my neighbourhood policing scheme and, thanks to her efforts, by July Tower Hamlets will be the first London borough to have police on the beat in every local community'."

So that's why they're not doing door-to-door leafletting! They have to see what community you're from so they can pick out the matching pamphlet.

(Although it must be said that the leaflet I've got is neither of those)