I’m starting this blog because like many I will be following
the run-up to the general election with the eye of the political anorak, and know others will as well. As such I thought I'd rather like to have an outlet for my thoughts on each day of the long campaign in what could be one of the most bizarre and close general elections in history.
It may be a pithy observation on the day’s
events, a picture or video- or sometimes a comprehensive explanation of my view
on the day’s electoral sparring and what it means for the election.
I am a left of centre Labour supporter, which of course will
colour my view slightly, however I hope that doesn’t mean that I suspend my
critical faculties and will be looking at the facts beneath the bluster and won’t
hold back on aiming to capture what might be happening – even if that is
contrary to the way I’ll ultimately vote on May 7th.
It’s my view that many of the memes and slogans you hear
from all parties are inevitably often caricatures and gross exaggerations (including those parties which cast themselves as outsiders and innocents), so I
shall generally write from a sceptical point of view and try to be explicative,
humourous and interesting where possible.
Because if all we have to read watch and listen to for the
next 101 days is claim and counter-claim, dodgy dossier followed by rebuttal
and muddy argument – it’s going to feel like an absolute eternity.
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