The other day I was at a loose end and was playing around with an anagram generator online. All the good ones are well-known (Tony Blair = I’m Tory plan B or Virginia Bottomly = I’m an evil Tory bigot for example) so I thought I would try a few from the Crawley political scene like councillors and candidates in this year’s elections and came up with these:

• Sally Blake = Leaky balls
• Marcella Head = Alarmed Leach
• Chris Redmayne = Henry I’m scared
• Gordon Seekings = Skin so engorged
• Mike Weatherly = Way meek Hitler
• David Shreeves = Deserved Shiv
• Henry Smith = Rhine myths
• Brenda Smith = Ms hand-biter
• Bob Lanzer = Nob blazer
• Andrew Skudder = Reds’ dud wanker
  (I’ll get that in before anyone else does)
• Richard W Symonds = Dr. Whimsy’s candor
• Robert Hull = Bolt thrower
• Alan Quirk = Lying cheat

Quite disappointing. The Robert Hull one is good, the Sally Blake one is funny but inappropriate, but the rest are a bit weak I fear.

And talking of Alan Quirk, we have not forgotten his mendacious newsletter, but I have been advised that if we had made a fuss about it the only person in the firing line would have been the agent whose name was at the bottom. I am pretty certain that the agent had nothing to do with it – even the other councillor whose name it was in had, apparently, not known of the contents.