The three big election questions that all the parties are simply ignoring | Aditya Chakrabortty
by Aditya Chakrabortty from on (#7EMW)
Forget the deficit: the real challenges we face - growth, housing and who exactly the government represents - won't be mentioned on the campaign trail
Elections have but one iron law: listen for what the politicos are not saying. Follow it, and you hear a roaring silence at the centre of this campaign. For all that Dave and Ed have jousted with interviewers and made pledges on platforms, there are three big questions that neither would-be prime minister will talk about. Yet the questions are existential, and the answers to them will matter not merely for the next parliament, but far beyond.
The three questions can be summed up as: How are we meant to live? Where are we meant to live? And who is meant to live here?
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