Sarah Harte: Our ageing voters deserve dignity and respect

Horse trading has begun to form the new government. 

To murder WH Auden’s poem, an election for many of us is a case of stopping all the clocks, cutting off the telephone, preventing the dog from barking with a juicy bone, and hunkering down on the sofa to keep up with who’s in a dog fight for the last seat in a constituency you’ve never been to.

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