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There is the general election - and then there is what is going on beneath the general election. There is the official election of the two main parties ‘the choice’. And there is the unofficial election, expressed through the rise of the unmain parties.
The view of the New York Times is that there is little to choose between the main parties while the electorate outside their support is merely “fragmenting”. The polls are static, there is no ‘breakthrough’, Labour wants a better country and the Tories can’t understand why a majority does not think it is already better. Be afraid! They warn, but if so, why not be afraid of them! The current Private Eye has Cameron falling asleep with the headline: ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMES ALIVE and the caption, “Passionate Cameron captures national mood”.
