Political litter louts given a mandate to return to the top of every pole

GARDENERS, I feel, fall not only victim to every life form that creeps, crawls, flies, sucks and stings, but to pests of their own kind, too.

When you live on a busy main road, the problem is compounded, especially during elections. You see, I cannot understand why anyone not living in my area (and perhaps yours) can come along and plaster the pole outside the front gate with a multitude of election posters, making the whole place look as if a circus is coming to town.

Isn’t every area of this country littered enough with rubbish and dirt without these vandals adding to it? Doesn’t my area get enough bad press (in relation to littering) without these fly-posting idiots adding to it? Does anyone agree, or am I totally alone? Long before the day of reckoning arrives, who has to sweep all the torn posters when wind and rain has blown them down, and who eventually has to remove them for binning? Not those who put them up, I can assure you, but the residents.