A Spectator's Notebook MOST people will be glad when it
is all over, for it has not been a very satis- factory ' general election. There has been too much confusion of issues. Too many irrelevancies have obscured the argument. Too much has been lost in the spate of words. At the end of it all, I wonder how many electors even think they know, say, where the parties stand on defence (the prime responsibility of any government); or what our economic situation really is, and how the next government may be expected to cope with it; or how the crucial question of our relations with Europe is likely to be met; or any of a list of major issues that one could easily compile. It is idle, of course, to expect an election to be a feast of reason : but I cannot be alone in finding the fog of war a little thicker and drearier this time than in other recent struggles for power.
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