The phoney election: Bogus rallies, photo stunts, vacuous sound bites, and the Press banned - never before have ALL parties so cynically tried to dupe voters...

By common consent this is the most momentous General Election for more than three decades. Such a great deal hangs on it.

Britain will be an immeasurably different place in five years’ time if Labour forms the next government, propped up by an even more Leftwardly-inclined SNP.

There is a stark alternative — not between two shades of grey, as has often been the case in recent elections, but between two radically different and mutually incompatible visions for the future of our country.

With so much at stake, you might expect passionate argument and rousing debate.

It’s true there has been something of that sort in Scotland, where the SNP threatens to wipe out Labour, but south of the border the campaign has so far been characterised by torpor and ennui.

Despite the magnitude of the issues, the public are barely engaged.

I submit that the chief reason is that, more than ever before, the main political parties are electioneering on their own terms, which means keeping the media — and in particular newspapers — at arms’ length. Never before was there such a sterile and stage-managed contest. Full story...

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