Election campaigns were exciting and creative but not any more

I do remember stories of voters at the God-help-them age having their hands guided in the ballot booth, writes Terry Prone

GOD be with the days when political parties used to send vehicles to take you to the polling booth. Lot to be said for that approach. From the political party’s point of view, it delivered grateful voters direct to the point of purchase. From the voters’ point of view, it meant mobility even if your car was sick, which mine currently is, although I admit if it’s still sick on polling day, its illness may be and hopefully is terminal.

Not that I am suggesting any principled citizen in this country would ever vote for a party simply because they sent a car to take them to the polling station. Perish the thought. As if, like. I do remember stories, though, of voters at the God-help-them age having their hands guided in the ballot booth. It could never happen today, of course. That’s the problem with today’s elections. No excitement to them at all.