It helps to keep the campaign focused, I think, when you are focusing on five issues that you feel are the most important. The general public can inform themselves about the party if they are curious, and the party can stay on message throughout the campaign. If you ignored newspapers and avoided watching the news, you wouldn't know there was an election going on in this country. Even if you do read the papers and watch the news, it's easily avoided, as it is not even the top story every day, as campaigns are in the United States. The British election is short, comparatively cheap, and very unintrusive compared to American elections.
British elections are also brutally frank about mudslinging.
It happens, both sides are guilty, and neither one of them seems to hold back. Even though politicians here are every bit as corrupt, every bit as vapid, and as full of hot air as any American politican, elections here are much easier on the voters. American elections are entirely too long, too expensive, and are practically a theatrical production compared to the spartan British elections, which, due to their brevity and the inability to predict precisely when they will occur, are much less muddled by spokespeople, coordinators, spin-doctoring, and trashy, boring talk show punditry. To report broken links, bugs, or other technical issues, please send an email to the Webmaster .