Ellee Seymour

Please do read our Euro candidate Vicky  Ford’s very amusing post and find out why  Simon Heffer needs to go to charm classes. What a grump. Would you want to vote for him if he stands as an Independent candidate?

Now our Vicky, a mum of three who got up at 5.30am to meet commuters at Chelmsford, after spending yesterday campaigning with her highly motivated team in Ipswich followed by a challenging evening on a hustings panel in Cambridge, would never dream of behaving in such a rude manner.

The campaigning schedules our candidates have are really gruelling, as you would imagine, but I have never heard Vicky utter a word of protest. She can’t do enough or meet enough people. She really enjoys it all too.

Simon, you should learn from our Vicky that a little politeness goes a long way…

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This is my get well letter to Susan Boyle:

Dear Susan, you have achieved far more than you could possibly realise. I regard you as an iconic figurehead who has inspired plump and frumpy women in middle age to believe that their dreams can also come true.

You have proved that you don’t have to be a botoxed size zero to win votes. You have a wonderful personality and terrific talent – as well as beauty from within – which is why you captured the nation’s hearts. You have given these women the self-confidence to believe it is never too late if they keep trying.

I believe the Queen would love to hear you sing, and she would empathise only too well with the emotional exhaustion you are suffering from. Just keep believing that one day this dream will come true. We are all wishing it for you too.

Take good care, and stay true to your real friends and loving family if stardom beckons.

Warm wishes,

Ellee xxx

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As you can imagine, trying to get the local media interested in writing about the Euro elections has been as easy as persuading Gordon Brown to audition for Britain’s Got Talent.

But now and again journalists come up trumps with their creativity on this very dry – if not scandalous – subject.

I was particularly impressed by the cracking idea and research carried out by BBC Three Counties Radio, which covers Herts, Beds and Bucks. I can understand why this topic is tricky for them as their patch covers two regions – a vast area.

Their producer Paul Scoins told me they planned to ask residents of Brussels Way, Luton to provide questions for their MEPs.  They wrote to 130 residents, but only had a couple of replies. Undeterred, they then drove to the street and knocked on their doors – good, old fashioned journalism – and found enough Brussels Way residents to speak to them on this issue.

Here is a link to the interviews with residents of Brussels Way who share the same apathy and concerns expressed by many voters around the country.

I know my MEP Robert Sturdy enjoyed the interview with the radio station this morning. Let’s hope the listeners did too…

*BBC Three Counties covers Luton where the town’s good folk are still waiting for Esther Rantzen to decide if she will contest Luton South now that Labour’s disgraced Margaret Moran is going to stand down at the next general election.

The diary column in last night’s London Evening Standard reported that Richard Ingrams, former Private Eye Editor, is considering standing against her because he claims “she’s the world’s greatest expert on expenses and freebies”.

Ingrams, who now edits The Oldie, states that the BBC expenses culture is not so different from that of parliament and involves larger sums of money provided by the taxpayer in the form of licence fees.

He suggests that any political opponent might feel tempted to investigate Esther’s previous career at the BBC, and in particular how she and her late husband, Desmond Wilcox, managed to bypass the BBC rule that husband and wife should not be allowed to work in the same department.

You know what they say about he who casts the first stone…

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