Dennis Skinner finds himself as Labour's new poster boy (at least in Barnsley)

By Jonathan Isaby

Following my account of my campaigning trip to the Barnsley Central by-election at the end of last week, I thought I'd share a little of the literature being published by the other parties.

The glossy Labour election address makes much of the fact that their candidate, Dan Jarvis, has spent the last 15 years of his life serving Queen and country in the Parachute Regiment:

But most interesting to me on the Labour literature was the appearance of veteran Left-wing MP for Bolsover, Dennis Skinner, who has not to my knowledge officially been sanctioned as a Labour Party poster boy anytime recently:

The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, are doing plenty of Labour bashing, continuing to brand the Iraq War as "illegal":

They also reproduce their classic "the Tories can't win here" bar chart, which fails to mention that they were just six votes ahead of the Conservatives last year (and whose message appears ot have been thus far lost on the people of Barnsley Central, according to the opinion poll published yesterday):

Finally, the UKIP literature is now majoring on the issue of immigration before Europe: