Monday, 20 April 2015

Do journos miss a trick. There are other possibilities aren't there?

I saw the cartoon in this morning’s Independent of our ‘call me Dave’ and Ed Milliband and could not help feeling deflated on behalf of an entire generation. Brian Adcock’s admittedly hilarious portrayal of Ed and Dave running toward a noose that would leave the residue of their parties in one form of coalition or another neglected the voice of the ‘next gen’ of voters. Lagging far behind call me Dave and Ed followed other proponents and only the SNP, the Lib Dems and UKIP were represented. This lack of representation just seems odd to me.


This is one cartoon, and I stress from the hand of a real talent, however doesn’t it represent a collective view that journalists of major news organisations continually perpetuate? There will only really ever be two horses in this race.