THIS is more like it. Fly has now been to a couple of hustings, and Fly approves.

No dangerous auto-clappers, no sitting through the same boring speeches night in, night out, and some actual questions. Real ones.

But more importantly, Fly thinks that the candidates are funnier.

Like the guy standing in St Lawrence who interspersed the notes for his speech with the words ‘PAUSE’ and ‘SMILE’.
What is he, a robot?

Or the candidate standing a little to the north who went through half of the meeting with the flies open. This may have been a tribute to little old me, in which case I’m, well, touched. I guess.

And the candidate in town who named Deputies Paul Le Claire and Rob Duhamel as the worst perpetrators of long, rambling speeches. Deputy Geoff Southern, for your openness and courage to condemn this appalling practice, Fly salutes you.

During his afternoon and evening trips out, Fly has often seen eager candidates, wearing out their shoe leather in tours of their districts, hunting down vulnerable undecided voters.

The only time Fly saw something similar in the Senatorial campaign, it was the unusual sight of a candidate being chased out of a garden by a dog. He moves well for a big bloke, too. Maybe that’s why he got a podium finish in the Senatorial race.