A few days ago, we received an email from someone who’d been watching political debate on Channel 4:

Heard Peter Oborne and Jon Snow discussing the ‘political class’ and how Boris and Cameron were both old Etonians.  While Oborne queried the homogeneity of ‘the political class’ due to Boris’ grandfather being an immigrant, Jon Snow made the point that Brian Paddick is the only ‘classless’ mayoral candidate and the only one who’s done a real job before.  Oborne had to agree.

You might think that, we couldn’t possibly comment.

I also saw and liked Brian Paddick’s “pieces of me” in the Guardian – upclose photos of the things that Brian Paddick holds dear, including a crucifix, a wedding ring, and his Oyster card.

And if that wasn’t enough, he also did a stint live on the Telegraph website responding to what could charitably be called a very wide range of questions.  It goes on for pages, and I think I’d have lost patience long before the end.  He is, of course, still undergoing a similar exercise on Twitter as we reported two days ago.

Finally if you read my blog (and why would you?) you’ll have seen my mini-obsession lately with the verse form the double dactyl.  My partner recently spotted that the words “Liberal”, “Democrat”, “Mayoral” and “Candidate” are all dactyls, and penned the following ode:

Bibbety bobbety
Brian L Paddick an
Ex-Police Officer
Currently is

Incontrovertibly
Liberal Democrat
Mayoral Candidate
Let’s hope he wins

I’m sure our cultured, literary readership on LDV can provide hours of entertainment along double-dactylian lines…