DESPITE AFFIXING to my front door, a week or so ago, a substantial, notice rendering it crystal-clear that I required neither any visits from canvassers nor electoral propaganda, Labour has deposited no fewer than four such items (although one was delivered by the Royal Mail).

Out of contempt for such attitudes, I placed an ‘Andrew Smith – On Your Side’ poster in my window – laterally. But few appreciated my attempted irony, so I have now removed it.

DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford