Within hours of the General Election being called, The Big Issue social channels were buzzing. There was one story dominating. Dogs.
This is not a thinly veiled Trump-inspired attack on the political class. Rather, it’s because a story about dogs went viral. A charity in London is offering veterinary and canine behavioural services for the pets of homeless people. And Big Issue readers love it (click here to see for yourself!).
Dogs can, of course, offer more responses than politics. You can’t throw a ball in a park and ask a manifesto promise on a pension triple lock to bring it back. Regardless of how good the biscuit offered.
It doesn’t follow, though, that Big Issue readers are removed from reality, more keen on canine capers than the key questions about their country.
We know this election is about Brexit because the great phalanx of political commentators tell us it is
We know this election is about Brexit because the great phalanx of political commentators who have barely had time to do their washing since the last election/referendum/change of government tell us it is.
Despite the fact that none of them knew a damn thing about the election coming until the moment it was called.