The local village hall has,
over the last 24 hours, accommodated both ends of the democratic spectrum with
yesterday hosting the Annual
Parish Meeting and today providing a polling station for the European
elections; there were only four
interested residents turned up last night to hold their elected representatives
to account and hear about the pressing issues in the village, viz: declining
support for the village hall, no more facilities for youngsters, reductions in
bus services, and diminishing numbers of volunteers for picking litter and
raking leaves (in fact the only thing going up is the average speed of vehicles
hurtling through the village as measured by the speed monitoring signs); and
probably not many more turned up today to cast their European vote, hopefully
for one of the sensible parties to be found here and there among the long list
of crackpots.
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