We've had a run in with UKIP.
A guy came to the door on sunday with leaflets, my dad politely told him that nobody in the house would ever support them and to save the paper. Half an hour later he went out to buy a paper and saw that they had attached a sign to a telegraph pole on our land by the road. There have been no other signs put up on telegraph poles in the area that we can see so he must have done it to spite us. My dad took it down immediately and threw it in a bush (our bush so not littering), but when he got back from the shop it was back up again, this time much higher up the pole. Obviously it got the same treatment. This morning it was up again, so high up the pole that they must have brought a ladder. This time we brought it inside.
We're now thinking of informing the returning officer, local press and maybe the police. Are they breaking any rules by doing this or would it simply come under trespass/aggravated trespass? Could taking it away be construed as theft?
In the area of rural gloucestershire I live in its mostly green and UKIP flyers up. The only literature we have had through the door is Tory (1 flyer) and UKIP (3 flyers!). One thing UKIP have done in central Gloucester is put their billboards at the entrances to the most ethnically diverse area of the city. Maybe they could cut down on advertising costs and just daub symbols on peoples doors. Big yellow stars and pink triangles might work, after all the areas where johnny foreigner lives should be made to stand out....
