The politicians don't get it. They don't realise how their stunted lexicon of empty phrases no longer conveys anything more than its own aridity. William Hague's speech yesterday launching his piffling potpourri of policies was typical of the species - but Labour politicians can and do seize every chance to talk much the same vapid nonsense from any podium to any captive audience. Blah, blah, blah. All anyone wants is for politicians to stop talking at them like idiots.
Most politicians do talk the same brand of high-flown tosh.
The very few who don't are loved, regardless of politics - the rare Mo Mowlam or Ken Clarke. It's only the misleading blather that makes them sound the same, for at this election the great left-right divide will be as deep and wide as the Atlantic ocean. With no costings it's all fantasy policy-making. At the heart of its most important policies lies one consistent strand - America and George W Bush. As in the US, the unemployed will be handed over to private companies to find them jobs, making profits out of any social security saving.