Every week I buy my copy of the Gazette and first check the Deaths column that I’m still here. 

I turn to the Letters page only to find, week after week, it is 
dominated by “vote for me” letters.

To reduce the frequency of these letters (hopefully), may I give the following guidance to your readers?

You could vote for a) someone who promises you more money, but doesn’t tell you where the money comes from; b) someone who promises you more jobs for Chippenham, but doesn’t explain where these jobs will be situated; or you can vote for c) who promises to reduce car parking charges but doesn’t explain that if car parking receipts go into the council tax fund, then if you reduce them, the money has to be found somewhere else, so you are no better off.

So what should one do? Spin the coin? No, because there are three candidates. So spin three coins and eliminate the one, and spin again?

In passing, the use of the title Dr does not mean that the user is a doctor in the medical term necessarily, which requires years of study, but can be amended to someone with the lowest pass rate for a degree, but can be awarded by a further two years of study and writing a thesis.

I hope this will help the undecided and will reduce the publicity of the parliamentary candidates disguised as readers’ letters.

Peter Slatter,
Elmwood,
Chippenham.