Gosling's Grouse: Now let's debate the issues

Now let's debate the issues

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Don't say anything in front of the kids. That might as well sum up the way the politicians treated us through the election campaign.

Do not discuss policy, do not debate issues, just tell us what you are going to give us and why we should believe you. Ironically, the only two parties who slightly broke away from that were the SNP and UKIP – and they got over five million votes between them. So now we have a government, with a working majority and a cabinet, can we please start being treated like adults? Let’s find out why a service economy like ours has some of the poorest broadband connectivity anywhere in the developed world. Let’s have a discussion about whether we need to replace Trident, while cutting ba...

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