General Election 2019: How politicians’ wild promises are damaging politics – Bill Jamieson
Once upon a time, there was too little political discussion, now there’s too much, writes Bill Jamieson.
Click, switch, click, switch: it’s the sound of thousands of radios and TVs being turned off or channels being switched across the land.
Barely has the official election campaign begun than an exasperated public has already had enough – and this with five weeks yet to go: the mantras, the repeated phrases, the dog-whistle calls, the dissembling we’ve all heard before. The great Brexit switch-off has already struck at TV news-time ratings. Now it is spreading across all election coverage.
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