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   Herbie Crossman

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   The formal launch of David Davis's campaign

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Bob Geldof, Tony Benn and Martin Bell have all put their

weight behind David Davis during the campaign.

But Independent candidate Herbie Crossman

says he can beat that by counting Nigerian tribal leader chief

Harold Sodipo among his supporters.

“I have known him for a long time and I would say he's a

jack of all trades and a master of some of them,” said the

chief this week.

For the record, the chief is the leader of the Yoruba tribe

in western Nigeria.

Sixties Eurovision crooner Ronnie Carroll

is hoping for “nil points” tonight.

Standing for the Make Politicians History party, the

73-year-old singer is asking no one to vote for him after he

was sidelined by illness.

“Ronnie wants to get into the record books as the first

election candidate to get a zero,” said his agent Rainbow

George.

Fresh from his spat with Miss Great Britain over her

donation to a local football club, Church Of The

Militant Elvis Party candidate Dave Bishop has

produced his own Graceland £10 notes to give away to potential

voters.

Featuring a portrait of Elvis instead of the Queen, they are

not the only dodgy currency doing the rounds on the campaign

trail.

Last week, I was presented with a £20 note featuring Tony

Blair's mugshot by a David Icke supporter.

Spare a thought for acting returning officer Nigel Pearson,

who faces the daunting task of reading out the full result at

the end of tonight's count at the Haltemprice Leisure

Centre.

He's got to plough through 26 names and 26 different voting

figures, while squeezed between 25 (Ronnie Carroll will be

absent) candidates.

Going back to his day job running East Riding Council should

be a piece of cake by comparison.