SIX months ago the Insider reported the emergence of a new spoof website celebrating sour-faced councillors posing miserably alongside potholes and building closures.

It now features an old snap of two of Oxford’s most media savvy elected members sporting their well practised frowns.

Young council hotshots Ed Turner and Antonia Bance have been posted up on the Glum Councillors website looking like they have both been devouring a large wasp as they pose outside the King of Prussia pub, right, following the demise of their ward drinking hole.

The website’s authors joked that the pair’s grim faces were caused because they are no longer able to afford Alistair Darling’s increased duty on cider at one of Oxford’s finest hostelries.

Judging by their super sour expressions, The Insider has them both down as lager-top drinkers.

To rejoice in the vision of the gruesome twosome, visit glumcouncillors.tumblr.com

THE annual antiquated pomposity that is the University Boat Race is almost upon us again. The Insider thought he was being kid-ded when he heard that, on the other side of the capital, two other university “representatives” will trot out to compete against each other at the same time this Saturday.

Yes, fans of cheap cash-ins might be interested to know the Oxford vs Cambridge Goat Race, will see two brisk bucks go hoof to hoof at Spitalfields City Farm in East London.

According to the organisers, the inaugural Goat Race last year, pictured, saw Cambridge, a pygmy goat, storm home to victory in front of a roaring crowd of more than 400 people.

On race day The Insider will probably be propping up the bar at the Oxford Blue, hoping the Cambridge boat sinks again and the Cambridge goat soon ends up in a delicious Jamaican curry somewhere.

AFTER this week’s Chancellors’ debate on Channel 4 it seems some people are already fed-up of the political spin, name calling and electioneering that we can expect over the next few months.

However, for those suffering from poll fatigue before the endlessly delayed election has even been called, The Insider has some heart-warming news to cheer them up.

Despite the on-going non-announcement of this year’s General Election Oxfordshire County Council leader Keith Mitchell last week decided to hang up his keyboard and cease blogging on the county council’s website until after the poll date.

The Insider, who might already be the world’s biggest fan of polling day, suddenly wishes a new election could be called every day.