There are the posters and spoofs. Then there is Twitter, which has caused a few problems for a Labour whip, and is still rumbling on. Now we have Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, who is most upset with all matters Labour:
Labour has been forced to rewrite part of its website under pressure from the cabinet secretary over accusations it "hijacked" government policy to promote the party.
The party radically changed references to Backing Young Britain, the jobs for under-25s policy, on its website after Gus O'Donnell cited civil service rules that stop political parties using government programmes to promote themselves.
Finally, at a time when the nation has no money, a little too much of the stuff has been spent on advertising:
It emerged that government spending on advertising had leapt by 40% to £253m in the past year.
This is hardly a unique development in the year running up to an election. However, the small matters of posters being mocked on the internet and derogatory tweets will be a first for Election 2010.
As we are being forced to live under the cloud of showbiz politics, the election has all the hallmarks of becoming a parody of itself.
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