Terry Prone: Running for any public office is ridiculed and that’s before you lose

I was struck by how the candidates who didn’t make it were either cast aside as statistics feeding into the bigger picture, or as failures, who caused their own immolation, writes Terry Prone

Collective abuse of a minority. That’s a general election. It is the most abusive form of job-seeking. For starters, the jobseeker is entitled to none of the confidentiality of someone who applies for a job in the county council or in a multinational. If you apply for a political post, everybody knows about it.