PATTRICK SMELLIE: It’s going to be a long seven weeks

PATTRICK SMELLIE: It’s going to be a long seven weeks
Pattrick Smellie
As of this morning, Monday, Aug. 31, there are just under seven weeks to go to polling day, assuming the election goes ahead on Saturday, Oct. 17.Let’s hope to God it does go ahead then because if it doesn’t, there has to be a chance that the gaseous brain-farts of a nation of tired, grumpy armchair experts and party apparatchiks will suffocate us all.There would be upside in that. It would mean the covid-19 threat had been overwhelmed by the nauseous stream of piffle that passes for much of the current debate about the pandemic res...

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