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.