Welcome to the exhausting era of political spam

What does John Major have in common with Nancy Dell’Olio?

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Clearly, a love of speech-writer-style paragraphing, sans-serif fonts, and free drinks. (I’m sure Major’s a lot of fun – he’s always been my favourite prime minister – but would he really have put those words in bold?)

The best thing about no longer being a parliamentary candidate is that my inbox has been liberated from its endless national campaign spam. ‘Support us!’ they cried, ‘Then, support us some more!’

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Even though I already was.

It was inexhaustible briefcase verbiage – written either by someone who hadn’t thought about it all, or, sadly, more likely by someone who had, but too much. Someone with a qualification in social media, perhaps. After receiving 54 briefing messages on the night of the leaders’ television ‘debate’, I finally changed my email address.

But, for London’s Labour lot – with upcoming leadership, deputy leadership, and mayoral elections – it’s only going to get worse.