ROBIN Walker has blazed a breathless trail around the Commons since 2010, but what impression do Labour frontbenchers have of him?

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, visiting Worcester last week, claimed in between media interviews to have never heard of the city Tory.

"Robin, erm, er? It's fair to say he's not high profile, what's his majority," he quizzed Labour candidate Joy Squires with a truly puzzled look on his face.

Charming.

* FROM the heedless to the surreal, burly Ed's trip saw him get a tour of Coombers in Warndon, where he delighted in mumbling along to 'I Should Be So Lucky' by Kylie Minogue as it played out over an amplifier.

The week before, incidentally, he cancelled a trip to Worcester after being told the night before by 'the boss' to get up to Scotland.

Is this Nicola Sturgeon's favourite song?

* MIND you, talking about that looming hung parliament, the Shadow Chancellor is the last man who could help The Source out.

Ed's spinners decided to come over all Russian, requesting that yours truly reveal what questions we intended to chuck his way.

We were then asked if we could "forget about" a tricky one over any Coalition talks.

Shush in that corner!

* SHADOW health secretary Andy Burnham turned up 20 minutes late for a rush-hour Worcester visit on Monday, arriving to moan about the city's utterly tedious congestion.

Yes, it’s always this bad around here.

* BBC Hereford & Worcester had fun broadcasting live from a Wyre Forest hustings last week, where no fewer than five fights broke out at the Boar's Head in Kidderminster, turning it into a scuffle-entwined WWE contest.

Shall we arm them with custard pies next time?

* A NASTY virus has struck UKIP ranks in Worcester, with parliamentary candidate James Goad having to miss a couple of hustings because he was so under the weather.

He even arranged for sidekick Richard Delingpole to fill in for him last week, only for Dick, as he is known, to become afflicted himself.

Was it a Bulgarian bug?