It’s fashionable to be ‘politically homeless’. But it’s also callous and detached | Phil McDuff

After nine years of the horrors of austerity, who are these people who can't see that only one party offers hope?

I am not, and never have been, one of the cool kids. I was a nerd into Christian rock at school. I love a good Excel spreadsheet. And in 2019 I am resolutely, unfashionably, not politically homeless.

Everyone is, these days. Can't throw a brick without hitting someone saying: "Ugh, there's no choice at all, it's like picking between being two different ways of being murdered." This election, depending on which paper you read, is either a desperate fight to save the Queen from being murdered by John McDonnell at 9am on 13 December, or a deeply dull and unpleasant affair which Your Humble Correspondent finds themselves unfortunately caught up in through no fault of their own, like someone sent out to cover an arts festival in Azerbaijan who ends up accidentally reporting on a scandal involving a dodgy sewage works.

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