I was sitting on the sofa watching television with my father last week when the conversation turned to politics.
I’ve been able to vote for the past eight years and let slip that, at today’s elections, I intended to vote Green. His reaction was far more vehement than expected.
‘Why on earth would you do that?’ he said, aghast. ‘Zack Polanski would be a complete and utter disaster!’
At first I was shocked by the strength of his feelings, but then it struck me that he and I are an almost comical representation of a national political divide – or rather chasm –
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