World Cup Willie (and friends)

To be fair, if the likes of David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham were paraded in front of me, I would probably have voted 'no' too.

All that fuss, and we only received two votes.

Us and someone else, apparently.

But given the English FA's legendary incompetence, can we even be sure that we voted for ourselves?

Vote rugging v2

Sadly, given their current desire to sell off some of the family silver, it seems that - like much of what's left of British manufacturing - Axminster Carpets are finding business a little on the quiet side. However, given the results in a recent online survey, that claimed 85% of voters were in favour of the company's controversial plan to build 400 houses on Cloakham Lawns, I reckon things must be particularly bleak.

I mean, If the company can afford to have a member of their office staff spending their entire working day voting 'yes' to an unimportant survey on the local paper's website, then emptying their computer's cache, then voting 'yes' again, then emptying the cache again, then voting 'yes' again, then emptying the cache again (and so on and so on), business must be more quiet than I had feared!

Note to Axminster Carpets' lawyers: it's a joke.