More election flyers have

landed in the letter boxes where I now live. There have been so many of them they now spill out into the street. Being a non-littering sort of cat I picked them up and put them in a nearby bin ready for today's collection. 

Someone else watched me do this and told me that I should have returned all the flyers to the various letter boxes. He said I was "stealing" mail and threatened to report me. As the flyers are not addressed to individuals this is not possible and I am sure the policeman who lives next door would laugh. I actually suggested he go and get that same policeman but he simply walked off. I wonder if he has been doing some of that "letter boxing".

Most of these flyers are printed in colour on shiny paper. They must cost a lot. They have to be delivered too but they may be done in part by volunteers. I wonder how many people actually read them and, if they read them, whether they bother to think about what is being said in them. 

There is one issue in our local electorate for which the incumbent is taking credit. The problem is that the work was actually done by the previous member and her party. When challenged on this the response has been, "But it was finished by us." 

Yes, of course it was but you were not responsible for all the work that went into it. You just moved in and took credit for it. No wonder they call you "Lazy L...". I still have not seen you in person but I have seen the candidate for the other major party. She has been in and out of the local shopping centre more than once. I have heard other people saying they have seen her elsewhere too. It does not surprise me. She has a reputation as a "worker" but it may not be enough to get her over the line.

Her supporters have been out and about too. They have been handing out useful shopping bags and small packets of jelly beans. I declined both again yesterday but their efforts did not annoy me. The volunteers doing it are young and enthusiastic.

I am tempted to go and vote early. It is something I could do if I so wished. That way I could simply go past anyone trying to tell me how to vote and say, "I've already voted." 

The problem is that those wretched shiny flyers will still appear in the letter box.