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There's a huge amount of 'English' or 'British' icons being used in this election, and it's not just the BNP at it, either........the Tories have been quite free with the use of the Union Flag in their campaign, UKIP's logo is the Pound emblem, and - most ludicrous of all - the Lib/Dems leaflet that came through our door yesterday has a picture of a Spitfire on the front with the claim inside that it was a Liberal minister that 'saved' the plane......erm, in 1942, two years after the Battle of Britain where the Spitfire made its place in history. How ridiculous - and what it has to do with politics 70 years down the line is quite beyond me.
Using symbols of national pride is fine by me; I'm as patriotic as anyone, but jingoism such as the Lib/Dems used in that pathetic leaflet is just plain daft. Election campaigns need to be about substance rather than imagery. Frankly, substance in this election campaign has been in short supply. I listened to an election debate on Radio 5 Live yesterday morning being broadcast from the North East, and almost the entire live audience wanted plain answers to the questions posed rather than the drivel and spin all the panel were churning out, especially Rosie Winterton. One wag emailed in to ask if she were capable of a straight answer to a straight question. The debate was notable for a conspicuous lack of direct answers to some very pertinent localised questions; when will the politicians get the picture that we're not children? Noone expects the next five years to be a bed of roses, but when asked how many public sector job losses can be expected, we'd just like to know a figure, not some political rhetoric that just does the opponents down.........if the different policies are laid out, then people can vote on what's before them.