CRACKING VISIT, GROMIT!!

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband visited Kent in April and I was tasked to get pics from three locations, Dartford, Gravesend and Maidstone.

Here's a couple which are rather unkind but rather confirm the Times' cartoonist's caricature of him as one half of the animated pair "Wallace and Gromit". Even the background adds to this...

At Gravesend, indoors in the Borough Market. Oh dear.  I've had to get low because it was, as usual, like trying to get pictures inside a telephone box and it's just added to the look... 

And another gesture. Oh dear. 

By the time he got to Maidstone he was running late, and the local edition were expecting images for their deadline at 2:30. However, there are 'phone calls one shouldn't have to take, and being asked by a reporter "Are the pictures in, yet??" when he would barely have arrived - even if he wasn't running late - makes one wonder if certain people have any clue how this lark works, at all...

Especially as I went to send what I did get and the mobile network was overloaded. A good signal, but nothing going out, which meant another five minutes drive to a different location in the hope that would do the trick. Fortunately, transmission was successful from here.