The elections are less than a week away now and the leaflets are piling in through our letter box.

Not only do we have council elections (for the first time using proportional representation) but we will need to vote twice for the Scottish Parliament – once for our constituency MSP and once for our Regional List. And so far on our Regional List we have:

• British National Party
• Scottish Conservatives
• Communist Party of Britain
• Scottish Green Party
• Independent Green Voice
• Independents
• Scottish Labour
• Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Nine Percent Growth Party
• Publican Party
• Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers
• Scottish Christian Party
• Socialist Labour Party
• Scottish National Party
• Solidarity – that’s Tommy Sheridan
• Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party
• Scottish Socialist Party – that used to be Tommy Sheridan
• Scottish Unionist Party
• Scottish Voice
• UKIP

Politics gone mad?