Election yawn - Why is all the current electioneering so boring?

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Trewin Restorick is already suffering from election fatigue - not least because the main party's green policies are so uninspiring

Try as I might, I just can't get excited about the election. The debate already seems to have slipped into a tedious game of petty accountancy on which it is virtually impossible to have a considered opinion...

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