We Should All Feel Ashamed of This Dull, Passionless, Hole-in-the-Corner Election

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This method of engaging in politics produces a large number of malign effects. One of them is that, since the main parties target the same voters, they tend to say the same thing. On immigration, for all Tony Blair's hypocritical claims that the Tories are fighting a 'nasty' campaign, Labour has copied the opposition. Meanwhile Michael Howard has timidly accepted Labour's tax and spending plans.

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We Should All Feel Ashamed of This Dull, Passionless, Hole-in-the-Corner Election

The 2005 general election has been, by a very great distance, the dullest in recent British history. It is far duller than 2001, and that was very dull indeed. It is so exceptionally dull that even the broadsheet newspapers - forget the tabloids - have become extremely reluctant to put political news on the front page. Inste...

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