On Thursday 30 April, a week before the polls close in a general election at once unpredictably close and yet strangely open, the three ‘main party leaders’ appeared on the BBC’s Question Time. They did so one after the other, as the Prime Minister refused to be confronted personally by the competition. It was depressing, it was shocking and it was annoying.
Depressing, because it was a clear regression from the first, or rather only, leaders' debate that kicked off the campaign, where the three women party leaders of Scotland’s SNP government, Plaid Cymru of Wales and the English Greens, plus Ukip’s ‘common man’, brought fresh realities to the studio - and demonstrate that there is the life and desire for a different kind of country than the one shaped and policed by Westminster and its media.
