The UK election has been announced, as everyone supposed it would be, for 6th May.
At 30 days the campaign is short compared to what is possible, but in fact I have never experienced a longer campaign - it seems to have been going on since September, perhaps longer than that.
I might say in passing that while everyone seems to think fixed term parliaments would be a good thing, this excessive excitement, stirred up by the media, towards a date they know in advance, would make trust, or at least interest, in politics a casualty. Voter turnout would collapse if they were so fed up they resented even the thought of a politician appearing on their screens.
On this occasion it seems that there cannot possibly be anything said which has not been said already, but I expect they will think of a few things, many of them half-truths, which is what blogs are here for.
At present there seems to be a fair bit of distance between the two main parties, but that could change. It's almost...er..interesting.
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