WORCESTER Green Party is pulling out all the stops for next month's elections, fielding candidates in all 12 city council wards.

This small merry gang are slowly morphing into a well-oiled machine, and with that comes regular PR guff to your Worcester News extolling the virtues of the party.

Only last week bigwigs from the city's branch managed to get Green Party deputy leader Will Duckworth to come to Worcester to support Louis Stephen, who is hoping to pull a rabbit out the hat and take Battenhall from the Tories.

But The Source wonders if someone in the party is in fact a soothsayer, given the press release that joyfully publicised his visit.

It said: "It looks as though the council will remain in no overall control after the election of May 22nd, therefore the Greens could once again hold the balance of power."

Green Councillor Neil Laurenson actually voted against the 2014/15 budget back in February, as well as all the Tories, but it went through regardless, so The Source is a little unsure how authentic this alleged 'balance of power' is.

But more to the point, aren't we counting chickens before they are truly hatched by claiming we're heading for a repeat of 2012?

* TALKING of wild assumptions, Worcestershire MEP Nikki Sinclaire may have made one herself during a recent trip to the printers.

The savvy politician, who belongs to the 'We Demand a Referendum Now' party, is busy electioneering herself for May's Euro elections and was dishing out leaflets at Worcester City's match v Brackley Town last Saturday.

The leaflet in question was riddled with grammatical errors numbering double figures, something of an own goal to excuse the pun.

As one fan puts it: "There were commas all over the place, more than I've ever seen before, the phrasing was terrible, it was just dreadful."

As long as it's a better effort than what UKIP can manage she'll be ok.

* IT'S always interesting to hear the the jobs councillors do in the real world, aside from behaving like a Praying Mantis in the corridors of power.

Ken Carpenter, a Lib Dem, is an expert in "airborne collision avoidance systems", which to you and I mean means technology that helps prevent planes from smashing into each other.

Such are the demands on his time he's not fighting re-election next month, instead opting to work alongside the Americans who are designing the next generation system for air control.

The Lib Dems, of course, agreed a pact with the Tories to allow them to stay in control of Worcester City Council in 2012, before sensationally dumping them one year ago in a shock coup with Labour, which was a bit like surveying the wreckage of a plane collision itself.

Once he's gone, will the current administration still need to be powered by a (Lib Dem) propeller?

Will he come back in a year and find broken wings, a knackered cockpit and shattered windows?

Who knows.