The Oldie election verdict: A battle of cliches

The Oldie magazine says that most of the ideas from this election are so familiar it feels like they hail from 1850 

“A battle of cliches” – that is how the election is described in The Oldie. And veteran political pundit Simon Carr, writing in the same magazine, says: “I’ve found it hard to get out of bed for the election. The torpor is not entirely the result of age and alcohol. So much of what we hear has been used before – some of it in the Fifties, and some in the 1850s.” Not exactly a ringing endorsement for our political leaders.