Cheerful letter in this week’s Sidmouth Herald (17th April 2015):

‘The sudden appearance in our fields and hedgerows, gardens and window boxes, of a variety of colourful election posters must gladden every heart in East Devon this Spring-time.

It is probably wise simply to enjoy them as a symbol of hope and renewal. But sometimes I wonder if they have some deeper meaning.

Perhaps the posters in windows and gardens indicate that the people who live there intend to vote for the named candidate (or party). But what are we to make of the ones on gates and fields inhabited only by sheep and donkeys?

And the ones planted on the margins of our public roads? What are they for? It’s not as if Devon East is a marginal constituency.

Or is it?

Robert Crick, Sidmouth