Postering for elections combines art, science and common sense

Bigger election posters outside railway stations can get into atmospherics, but the lamppost posters have more precise and limited functions, writes Terry Prone

The only safe place to be, during the European and local elections, is over with the poster-haters. Posters are pointless and anti-environment, goes the argument, and those EU contenders are shocking, the way they deface or even destroy the posters of people from within their own political party which stray over the line established as belonging to another candidate.