Don't waste your time on this wind

Coffee House's Peter Hoskin commends articles by Larry Elliott and Steve Richards. Don't bother.

Elliott & Richards have produced pretty meagre fare.

Sure, the Tory line on the NHS is brain dead. But Labour studiously has no line on anything like this at all. Elliott's piece is only worth while if the point 'what about Labour?' never occurs to you while you're reading it. Unlikely.

Richards rehashes a little at some length. During an election the broadcast media must studiously observe neutrality, so they can't reflect the rightist tilt of the blogs.

And outside the excitable world of political journalists and bloggers, how much of this will seep out to the average voter?

The top down controllers during the election campaign will still have far more influence than Richards' windy piece allows.

I suppose they both have space to fill. Quite why Hoskin encouraged me to spend my time reading them, though, I'm not sure.