Political garbage II and silly people

More waste arrives

Beginning to feel a little neglected down our way.

While neighbouring streets have spouted anything up to four campaign banners on their public lampposts and street railings, we’ve been left with only one until this morning, when we woke up to discover the banner gnomes had been up at the crack of dawn, and we’d received the free gift of a second banner, and yes, the Scottish Labour gnomes are indeed taller than the SNP gnomes, and their banner has been installed above their opponent’s banner.

I wonder if any of the candidates has ever heard any of the dopes that strap loudspeakers on their car, and then drives around bellowing inane drivel in some sort of sad attempt to drum up support for the one they worship.

If they weren’t so sad as to waste their time on this pointless promotion, they might be at home when one of their number passes them doing the same thing. If so, then they might wonder at what the point of this exercise is. It certainly doesn’t do anything to publicise their candidate or inform anyone about them.

All that happens is you hear the indistinct, mushy speech somewhere in the distance, so you can’t make out what is being said as they are moving around.

Next, if they happen to come down your street, the chances are they’ll have a some horn loudspeakers strapped on the roof of their car, being directional, the result is that you still can’t really hear anything until they get close, and then once they’re past, you can’t hear them again. The net result is that all you get is a few sentences when they’re close, which means little.

They could stop, but who’s going to loiter and listen? They could drive a lot slower, but they’re on the public road, so I’m sure someone would call the police and report them for driving without due care and attention, since they’d be interfering with normal traffic flow.

All in all, these loudspeaker cars seem very pointless – whatever else they do, they don’t get any message across. Even if you could hear them, since you only hear a few seconds of their message at best, they do little more than advertise a lack of thought.

Some them do score more points for comedy though, and you can only wonder at the few that appear with home stereo speakers tied onto the car roof, and wonder what state they’re in when they’re taken back home, especially if it’s been raining while they were out.

It’s a pity they pass so quickly, as they’re always out of sight by the time I get to the window and can look down into the street for a pic. And that doesn’t say much for their effectiveness either.