Go read the details here and fume.

Jerome Taylor, journalist for "The Independent" went to see one of the candidates standing in the Tower Hamlets area for the General Election. Alone. When he foolishly told a few asian youths why he was there, they and several more of their mates beat him to the ground with whatever weapons they could get their hands on.

The fact he survived to be tended by the paramedics (who normally refuse to venture into this area without a police escort) is due entirely to a local have a go hero who came out and fought these thugs off until they ran, some running directly into the house of the candidate he sought to question over these fraud allegations.

If ever there was a reason to abandon the election in this rotten borough and hold it on another day only after every voter's eligibility has been validated by electoral officials going door to door protected by armed response police officers, this is it.