COMMENT | Vote decency and decently in GE15

COMMENT | Our interaction with the government doesn’t start and end with general elections, but at the same time, we must make full use of them. Especially right now, the elections present a powerful opportunity to set the government’s priorities and values in which all voters need to take part.

With polling day in slightly more than a week, barring further surprises such as major floods occurring, small left-behind towns suddenly find themselves at the centre of attention. Every bigwig and their army of assistants will want to make sure that they have shaken every shopkeeper and roadside vendor’s hand, and while they’re at it spend a little bit of money as a show of their support for small businesses in their constituency.

More often than not...