A quick glance across the mainstream papers and it is difficult to see that an election campaign is supposedly in progress. A similar situation applies to the distinct lack of of political posters declaring promises of “CHANGE”. The number of political leaflets dropping through the letter box is much less than anything I can remember in over more than 60 years of political awareness. I have yet to see an election poster in a domestic window anywhere.
Only one canvasser (from the so-called Conservative Party) has knocked on my door, and when I said I'm not interested, he replied by indicating that is the message he is receiving everywhere he calls.
As a non TV Licence holder I am excused from following the dubious and probably rigged “TV debates”. From what I have seen in the mainstream press and heard on the radio, the election debate appears to be waged at a level that is so puerile as to cause the the majority of us to switch off from politics completely in order to bring about a pre-conceived multi-faceted coalition of the unwanted.
The choices at the polls appear to me to range from the inane to the ridiculous, from the downright deceitful to the extremely unlikely. I have never known an election like it. It's as if Dumb Dumber Dumbest & Co are seeking election.
Here is one major issue that none of the political parties has an answer for:
http://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk/If ever there was an indicator that the current crop of political parties do not have the answer to the problems they've created – THIS so-called election has to be the sign.