It’s Friday. And it’s nearly hometime. Let’s just pop over to the Glum Councillors tumblr site to see if there’s anything to look at?

Cllr Doherty is a bit glum

Well, there’s Cllr Doherty (pictured):

“If this corner doesn’t qualify as a dangerous bend, I don’t know what does,” said Cllr Doherty standing at the corner … in the road … with his back to the oncoming traffic.

You’ve probably seen the MyDavidCameron site? Whatever you think to the politics of taking the tiddle out of the Tory leader, I like the quality of the site. They’ve not allowed themselves to be overwhelmed with tedious pointscoring and there are quite a few gentle (or even absurd) little digs.

I’m not quite sure why, but I firmly believe that if politicians were gently teased a lot more, the country would be all the better for it.

Oddly, I think it’s a game-changing site. Parties are learning that set-piece political campaigns don’t work any more. Big expensive billboard launches (this one is rumoured to have cost £500,000) can be totally derailed by a bit of mild viral ribbing.

My favourites?

or….

Councillor Stamp. Our August pin-up.

As the silly season draws to a close (it is Friday as well), those nice people over at the internet have brought the ultimate in municipal-porn-meets-pavement-politics: the Glum Councillors.

For some time, I’ve thought that the LGA could prove it’s worth to the nation by doing a Calender Girls type fundraising exercise for charity featuring photos of some of our most nationally recognised and charismatic councillors – pictured as God intended.

The one problem is this; what is ‘the classic councillor pose’? Glum Councillors may have finally answered this question for us.

If you see any more of these, the site urges you to tweet them to @glumcouncillors

(Hat tip to Ivan for this one).