Focus on the wives shows the poor quality of leaders on offer to the electorate

The media are getting very excited about the emergence of Samantha Cameron on to the campaign trail along side hubby David this weekend and have enjoyed covering Sarah Brown’s increasingly high profile over the past year in a bid to raise husband Gordon’s appeal, but to me their increasing profile highlights the failure of the political party leaders to convince the electorate they have the answers to the problems we face and to vote for them - instead of policy and a new direction we can now vote for window dressing.

Don’t get me wrong Samantha Cameron and Sarah Brown are interesting women in their own right and have quite a lot in common, both are intelligent, successful career woman, both are committed to their husbands and families and both have suffered the tragic loss of a child, but does wheeling out the wife make us want to vote for either party or is this just the latest step with the introduction of Prime Ministerial debates in hollowing out the political process and making it more like American Presidential Elections?

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