THEY are all awful, aren't they? That, at least, sums up a strong strand of opinion among the (sometimes) jaded and world-weary political commentators of Britain's newspapers.
As Labour and Conservatives are both pulled to their extremes - each riven by allegations of deeply embedded racism - many voters are now looking to cast their ballot for the least worst, not the best.
The Liberal Democrats have failed to grasp the centre ground vacated by the two main parties. And in Scotland the SNP's brand of Nordic-style moderate social democracy is still secondary to the big decision on independence.
Sunday Post
Mandy Rhodes reckons the two big referendum issues cut across party loyalties of old.
"In England it's about Brexit and in Scotland it's about independence, yet neither are actually on the ballot paper, " she Holyrood magazine editor wrote in the Sunday Post. "The electorate are being urged to lend their support to parties they don't agree with, to politicians they don't like and, even more remarkably, the most popular candidate for prime minister among viewers polled after the TV leaders' debates – Nicola Sturgeon – isn't even eligible for the role."
Ms Rhodes stressed that Ms Sturgeon was flying in the polls despite a series of problems in health, education and policing.
She explained: "This is not an election based on a policy record in government otherwise neither Boris Johnson nor Nicola Sturgeon might score very high.
"Sturgeon cannot be PM, and yet she has put herself front and centre of the SNP's campaign to win seats at Westminster.
"She has been the one to take part in the many leaders' debates and interviews and while it is inevitable that her record in power in Edinburgh comes under scrutiny, in an election that is b
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