Many people will remember the day that Roy Hattersley, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, pulled out from appearing on the satirical topical quiz programme "Have I got News For You". In his place the producers put a tub of lard.
Saltwell and Bensham Residents Association have been asked what will happen if some of the candidates for this week's local government election dont bother to turn up at our public meeting. It would surprise us if the parties failed to take advantage of the only public meeting organised in the area during the election campaign. It would surprise us if candidates didn't want to talk to up to 100 of their constituents judging by the attendance at previous meetings. It would surprise us even more that candidates didn't want to talk to people so thirsty for political information that they are prepared to come to a church hall on a Wednesday night.
The big question the executive of the residents association needs to ask is whether they need to bring out the symbolic block of lard to represent political parties who hold their constituents in so much contempt they can't even be bothered to meet them on the night before an important election.
In an effort to encourage participation the residents association will be putting out a reserved seat for each party in the election with a reserved sign and we will be photographing the scene at the start of the debate. Whether we have to replace any of the participants with a tub of lard is entirely up to them.
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