THE Crewe and Nantwich campaign – like most by elections – is getting pretty nasty. Labour candidate Tamsin Dunwoody’s leaflets contain a “Tory Candidate Application Form”, a mediocre attempt at satire that nonetheless warms the cockles of the socialist heart with questions like “do you live in a big mansion” and “do you think that regeneration is adding a new wing to your mansion?”, to which hopeful Tories are presumably expected to answer “yes”. But look at this little nugget, slipped into the list at number four:

One can only speculate what the Labour application form said. “Do you believe in racist dog-whistle tactics?”, perhaps?