It may take more than a truckload of nose pegs to get voters to the polls this week. But abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated. On Thursday those with two votes should be looking at each carefully in its own light.
First Europe: how extraordinary if Ukip is the chief beneficiary of the current scandal. Nigel Farage admits legally drawing £2m in EU expenses and employing his wife, while one of his MEPs was jailed for benefit fraud and another faces prosecution for laundering money and false accounting on his EU expenses. Ukip is no repository for clean-them-out sentiment, yet some polls put it second, pushing Labour into a humiliating third.
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