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	<title>Local Democracy &#187; Teasing politicians</title>
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		<title>Gentle mockery</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Friday. And it&#8217;s nearly hometime. Let&#8217;s just pop over to the Glum Councillors tumblr site to see if there&#8217;s anything to look at? Well, there&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s Friday. And it&#8217;s nearly hometime. Let&#8217;s just pop over to the <a href="http://glumcouncillors.tumblr.com/">Glum Councillors</a> tumblr site to see if there&#8217;s anything to look at?</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 270px"><a href="http://glumcouncillors.tumblr.com/post/361172486"><img title="Cllr Doherty" src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx216rZHwr1qa14h5o1_400.jpg" alt="Glum Cllr Doherty" width="260" height="302" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Cllr Doherty is a bit glum</p></div>
<p>Well, there&#8217;s Cllr Doherty (pictured):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“If this corner doesn’t qualify as a dangerous bend, I don’t know what does,” </em>said Cllr Doherty standing at the corner … in the road … with his back to the oncoming traffic.</p></blockquote>
<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen the <a href="http://mydavidcameron.com/">MyDavidCameron</a> site? Whatever you think to the politics of taking the tiddle out of the Tory leader, I like the quality of the site. They&#8217;ve not allowed themselves to be overwhelmed with tedious pointscoring and there are quite a few gentle (or even absurd) little digs.</p>
<p>I&#8217;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.<br />
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<p>Oddly, I think it&#8217;s a game-changing site. Parties are learning that set-piece political campaigns don&#8217;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.</p>
<p>My favourites?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="mydavidcameron" src="http://mydavidcameron.com/images/accident1.jpg" alt="my david cameron " width="578" height="289" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">or&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Relax" src="http://mydavidcameron.com/images/stradling1.jpg" alt="Relax" width="578" height="289" /></p>
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