The Herald:

PERHAPS it’s simply because the pandemic has simply sucked the life from this election.

Almost all those who’ve ever stood for parliament will tell you that the adrenaline rush when they encounter voters on their doorsteps or at public hustings in sweaty village halls is unlike anything else they’ve ever experienced.

Yet the absence of these alone doesn’t explain how listless this election has been. The leaders have been entirely devoid of anything that even hints at originality. Instead, they’ve merely rehearsed a few slogans from old campaigns and re-heated them.

The leaders’ debates sank dismally into juvenile bickering about another referendum (the first one was nasty and divisive, don’t you know). When you hear Anas Sarwar and Willie Rennie espousing this mince you know they don’t even take it seriously themselves.

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