Living in a very safe seat I’ve not been overly affected by the General Election campaign on a local level. Thankfully we’ve not had any visits from party top brass, no-one has called anyone a bigot and vans with loudspeakers haven’t been touring the streets of West Suffolk. In fact the most exciting thing was the addition of a Hitler moustache to a Tory poster in the middle of a field.

Cutting edge and marginal it isn’t. I’m not even asking for social media engagement. However that is no excuse for the frankly appalling campaign literature I’ve been sent. I’d like to say I’d vote for whoever could write in proper English, without grammatical or spelling errors – but that would mean spoiling my ballot paper. Absolutely everyone from Labour to UKIP has sent me information that is poorly punctuated, badly spelt and shoddily printed. And the irony is that they all talk about education (they spelt that right at least) as being central to UK competitiveness. It doesn’t matter that the seat is pretty much decided, basic proofing is all I ask!