What are we going to do for the rest of the election campaign? What are they going to do, the leaders, the strategists and the entourages? There are no more televised debates. The election campaign is more or less over.
The actual debates were much better than I feared. I have always believed voters would respond positively to politics in the raw without much mediation. The drama and importance of politics do not require a comedian or a self-centred interviewer to make it interesting, as some programme editors arrogantly assume. "I know how to get viewers interested – we will get Jordan to interview the leaders" is the sort of clichéd exclamation that does the rounds these days. Jordan did not get a look-in during three peak-time debates.
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