Question time today, at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School.
This election started with everyone expecting it to be the cynical election with "difficulties on the doorstep".
It's been anything but, it's become the "Peoples Election" with a real concentration on issues and policies. One of the most encouraging, and challenging, sessions was yesterday with the 6th formers at QUEGS in Penrith. Politicians find that their vision tends to become narrowed by the pressure of needing to the continually elected and we sometimes forget that politics should be about a vision as well as the process. The 6th formers reminded us of that, with a range of perceptive questions.
Later that night I had a late session catching up on emails and quite by co-incidence emailed a reply to a young man who turned out to have been at the afternoons question time. An interesting reminder that although this is the largest constituency in England it's still possible to make these connections.
And to wind down, we caught up on some "telly" watching last weeks edition of "Have I Got News for You". This was a BD edition (Before Debate) and it was like watching something from a couple of years ago, so out of tune were the opinions about the election. Everything really has changed!
