I admit that this was not in the cause of my own political development, but because I was due on the Today programme this morning to sound off about them, and about the ‘Great Debate’ between the party leaders coming up on television. Honestly, I thought that there was not much to choose between the three main parties in this respect, though Labour and Tory were worse than Lib Dems by a short head. It wasn’t just the graphics – though quite where both of the big two had found their left-over Eastern bloc propagandists, heaven knows. The Tory ‘people power’ illustration really did have the tractor factory feel to it – and the fact that it was indeed an advert for the Tory party is just one hint at the ideological emptiness that you will find if you read these documents. As I blurted on the radio, the worst thing about these documents is their oozing platitudes. Whoever has written them has not grasped the point that political messages only count as interesting and engaging and worth bothering with if the opposite point of view could conceivably be held – if, that is, there is something to argue about.
What do You think about All In A Don's Day (2012)?
