WELL, the silly season known as election time is here again!

It’s that time when the almost unknown or forgotten politicians of both local and national parties surface to tell us how well they will do if we just support them for the next term of office.

With promises galore of cash here, money there and help everywhere else to extract our vote, but the underlying thought by most of the electorate is that it’s the same old story of promises that will not be delivered for one reason or another.

When the political point scoring does not seem to be going well, then they resort to attacks on their rivals calling them elitist, racist, unrealistic, or just plain arrogant.

They promise us the Earth but usually deliver mud, quite often thrown at their opposition!

Am I the only one who thinks the election process is sinking into an undignified and tawdry mess unbecoming of even children?

D Foster

Copythorne Close, Bournemouth