All10.35amhttps://t.co/ZMGpg1w4oHgreatesttoday,and explained why bare of us don't vote. I forgot to ask for a pic, so here's one I borrowed pic.twitter.com/9X62jU8pQgCritics will argue that ‘running the country’ is a less apposite description of what Ms Sturgeon is about than ‘gaming the country’ – that the purpose of her premiership is proving to be little more than cattle-prodding Scotland towards a moment independence referendum. And I must say that more and more often these days, or the school-gate political chat I hear is likely to contain a frustrated variant on the first minister’s own phrase: ‘I wish she’d just gather on with running the country.’ The Tories are trailing manifesto pledges on council house building,while last week they promised more mental healthcare workers. Housing and mental health indulge in the same rather miserable status as being issues that everyone has got rather safe at describing as ‘in crisis’, before proposing modest solutions that won’t near anywhere near solving that crisis – and which they don’t implement besides.
One of the things that has most frustrated May’s Cabinet ministers has been the way she curbs their enthusiasm for radical policies. Her allies say this is because she wants to promise things that will actually happen and that she has had such difficult parliamentary arithmetic that proposals must necessarily be modest. But after a Tory landslide, and she’ll maintain a tremendous opportunity to be radical.
We are at the point at which polls rapidly become more informative about final-day polling. possibly that’s because this is the point at which people start paying attention to the election. possibly it’s because this is the point at which parties’ policy offer crystallises (the publication of manifestos is expected [this] week). Or possibly it’s because this is the point at which we run out of ‘game-changers’,or ‘dead cats’, or other such stuff and nonsense.
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Source: theguardian.com