Bulletin From Bromham: Dateline
– Sunday 5th March 2017
Here is our weekly round-up of events from Bromham:
1. Red
faces all round at last Sunday’s BAFTA (Bromham Area Farming and Tractor Awards)
ceremony when the name of the wrong vegetable was announced as the winner. The crew of “Parsnip Pickers” were already
half-way through their acceptance speeches before the error was discovered, and
the award for Best Field Vegetable went to the “Carrot Collective”. An investigation has been launched into how
such an error could have been made by the firm of highly-paid consultants. All seven votes that had been cast had to be
subjected to a recount. The awards for
Best Small Vegetable went to “Sprout”, for Leading Legume to “Cauliflower” and
for Best Foreign-Sounding Vegetable to “Courgette”.
2. And
in a shock result in a ward of the Parish Council, a chap who was expected to
win didn’t. Another chap who wasn’t
expected to win did. Two others who were
in the middle did better than they thought they would, and two others were a
bit disappointed. The swing from one to
the other candidate was not huge. The
winning majority was moderate. The
turn-out was fair-to-middling. The press
interest and analysis was enormous.
Voter apathy was absolutely vast.
3.
For
details of these and all other Bromham stories, don’t forget to listen to local
radio station Carrot FM.
Copyright
Andy Fawthrop 2017
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