Labour doesn’t deserve it

ELECTION campaigns are fine pieces of political theatre, with stirring lines, dramatic entrances and exits, and plenty of well-choreographed sword-play. But at the end, in contrast to conventional theatre, there comes a moment of awkwardness, of embarrassment even. It is when the audience has to get involved. The ordinary voter can at least hide behind the secrecy of the ballot. Not so a newspaper like The Economist. As a journal of opinion, and British to boot, it would be strange not to have a view about the British choice; stranger still to keep it to ourselves. So which way do we think votes should be cast on May 1st?