In the interests of balance, here is a round-up of the various racists, fraudsters, sex offenders, perverts, drink drivers and general crooks in the LibLabCon, SNP and Green parties that the national media mostly ignored this year:
January
- Swale borough councillors refuse to resign despite moving 150 miles away from their ward
- Conservative Councillor suspended for alleged racist comments
- Left wing extremists assault Nigel Farage in Kent
February
- Give your postal vote to the Post Office not the Labour Party
- Tory troll Joshua Bonehill-Paine charged with making malicious communications
- Conservative Party member was part of a child kidnap gang
March
- Racist MP Diane Abbott accuses UKIP of fostering racism
- Tories select former BNP activist for by-election
April
- Lib Dem councillor in Exmouth found guilty of breach code of conduct
- Shamed Lib Dem porn councillors told to resign
- Disgraced ex-Lib Dem Hancock standing for re-election in Portsmouth
- Warrant issued for Conservative ex-councillor
- Tory wannabe councillors in Hillingdon admit discrimination against non-Tory areas
- Tory councillor calls himself "Sir" for 19 years
- Labour candidate in Harrow a convicted benefits cheat
- Lib Dem Councillor resigns over £1,200 charity theft
- Labour official admits electoral fraud in leaked email
- Tory councillor: When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it
May
- Labour Deputy Council Leader suspended over electoral fraud allegation
- Newham Conservatives in hot water over leaflets again
- Sheriff of Gloucester apologises for lying on election leaflet
- Labour MP demands withdrawal of Labour leaflet
- Labour councillor prosecuted for firearms offence
- Labour activist makes homophobic remarks against councillor
- Conservative councillor convicted of firearms offence
- Newham Conservatives deliver "sectarian" leaflet
- Conservative councillor arrested over allegations of impersonating a barrister
- Labour councillor's benefit fraud trial postponed
- Lib Dem benefit cheat councillor blocked from council committees
- Conservative councillor banned for drink driving
- Police called in over Labour postal vote fraud complaint in Slough
- Conservative fraudster arrested for electoral offences
- Tower Hamlets Conservative candidate being investigated by police
- Foot fetishist Lib Dem apologises for sleazy Twitter account
- Independent panel resigns in protest at Conservative councillors' allowances
- Conservative ex-mayor charged with possession of indecent images of children
June
- Labour councillor in London under investigation for electoral fraud
- Chuka Umunna says UKIP supporters are too thick to use email or internet
- Disgraced Lib Dem MP Hancock admits "inappropriate and unprofessional" relationship
- Tory candidate for Newark tries to cover up his privileged upbringing and wealth
July
- Leicestershire Labour councillor paid £2,750 per meeting
- Leicester Tory Councillor charged with assault
- Surrey Conservative Councillor convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend
- Labour MEP says people from white, rural backgrounds are racists
- Green councillor calls soldiers "hired killers"
August
- Lib Dem Mayor and Lib Dem and Labour councillors resign over sex offender taxi drivers
- Broxtowe Labour councillor urged to resign over racist remark
- Guildford Conservative councillor charged with fraud, deception and pretending to be a barrister
- Labour activist threatened with expulsion over homophobia named as one of their top activists
- Leicester Labour councillor in trouble again
- Wigan Lib Dem porn councillor censured by standards committee
- Hounslow Labour councillor applies to have indecent assault charge dismissed
- Shaun Wright refuses to resign over Rotherham child abuse report
- Labour Mayor of Salford facing malfeasance investigation
- Labour leader of Wrexham council sacks councillor for raising concerns about social services
- Labour councillor charged with dangerous driving and attempted wounding
- Rotherham Council child snatchers allowed 1,400 children to be raped and abused
- SNP councillor who lives in Austria missed 40 out of 47 meetings last year
- Ex-BNP, ex-English Democrat adult model joins Conservatives
- Labour councillor suspended for swearing at whip
- Wirral Labour marking their own homework
- Lib Dem councillor for Fareham lives in Saudi Arabia
September
- Tories threaten potential defectors with character assassination
- Ken Clarke and Boris Johnson: UKIP voters are elderly men with disappointing lives who have sex with vacuum cleaners
- Labour Mayor of Hartlepool in trouble again
- Rochester Conservatives organise fake protest against Mark Reckless
- Conservative Minister resigns over sex scandal
October
- Lib Dem Mayor of Watford accused of abusing her position
- Conservative councillor who suggested executing travellers resigns
- Lib Dem campaigning in Botswana at taxpayer's expense
- Highland Lib Dem councillor forced to resign for sharing anti-Muslim propaganda
- St Helens Labour PPC to stand trial for assault
- SNP Councillor charged with homophobic assault
- Former Lib Dem Mayor of Milton Keynes implicated in fake visa scam
- Chukka Umunna accepts donation from tax dodge advisors
- Maidenhead Conservative councillor apologises for saying travellers should be executed
- Green Party Peer arrested over illegal protest in London
- St Albans Conservative councillor assault trial date set
- Lord Freud to keep his job despite saying disabled are worth less than able-bodied people
- Conservative's Rochester "postal primary" gimmick is an election expense
- Labour Mayor of Rochdale apologises for saying she would have rigged by-election result
- Another Labour peer calls for charges to use the NHS
- York Labour councillor calls Conservative councillors "seriously obese"
- SNP councillor left council meeting to play games
- Malvern Green Party councillor banned from council offices
- Complaint about Conservative councillor's game playing in meetings
- UKIP councillor calls for investigation into Sandwell Council asset sale
November
- Former Labour councillor charged with defrauding council she sat on
- County Durham Labour Councillor admits child sex abuse
- North Cornwall Council warns schools not to allow Lib Dem councillor near children
- Rochester & Strood Green Party's disrespectful Remembrance Sunday anti-war campaign
December
- North London Labour: UKIP has "evil money grabbing jews" in the party
- Lib Dem councillor gives "Nazi salute" as Labour councillors award themselves 24% pay rises
- Fake barrister Conservative councillor pleads not guilty to fraud charges
- Lib Dem ex-councillor sacked as magistrate
- Iain Duncan Smith talks down food banks with some dodgy maths
- Three Conservative MPs address London Swinton Circle
- Former Lib Dem Mayor of Horncastle convicted of animal welfare offences
- Conservative Councillor says being "brown and a woman" is a handicap
- Conservative councillor criticised for laughing during speech about 7 year old flood victim