The political situation isn't boring. And while I'm not one of those who thinks the electorate will be enthused if you go over housing policy in great detail, there are enough policy difference to capture interest. What's boring ?

I am enjoying this election, it is helping me to go to sleep without sleeping tablets. -- who's winning?
Em:,, Harow

It IS boring - the differences between the three major parties are relatively tiny - and they're all spending more time rubbishing each other than enthusing us with their visions and aspirations. And frankly the election coverage isn't helping. I do NOT want to hear another politician avoiding answering a barely relevant question. Let's have some bigger picture reporting!
Mike Read, Exeter, UK

I think people are not bored with politics but bored with the big parties and the lack of choice. There is a lot of interest in constituencies where other parties will have an influence for example the Community Action Party have four candidates in Wigan and Warrington. We need more of ths and less of the same!
Jonathan Miller, Lowton UK

Whatever happened to ideology? This is of even more importance now that the policies look the same. It's the broad - perhaps visceral - perceptions which make politics interesting and which still give the clue as to what sort of society most people want to live in. If the media had the courage to focus on these bigger issues, it would all be much more interesting
Glyn Powell, Dorset, UK

I quite agree this is driving me mad I am so bored by it I can't wait untill May 5th at 10.00pm when it will all be over.
Ann Coulton, Bristol

In terms of journalistic potential, I agree with Mark; there are indeed lots of good stories connected with these events. Yet the public do not see it this way. They are not so much bored as ignored, they have no great political differences to chew over, and the parties now use 'mosiac' and other trendy software to target those undecided voters in marginal seats. The politicians are so careful not upset us that they fail to excite us. This is the politics of the bland. The public need to be challenged rather than pandered to.
Howard Yong, Brighton

It is about time that the BBC and others start setting some of the agenda, instead of jumping to the politicians tune. Hit them on issues that they are avoiding like; reform of the house of lords, the role of Royalty in the 21st century, what reforms are going to be made to ensure we are not dragged into another War without the parliment having all the facts, what is going to be the role of the british forces. The next goverment may have to make some big historical decisions and therefore we need to be aware of their stand point.
Judith Pinkney, York

What is uninteresting, or boring, about this election campaign is the lack of any genuine personalities. Our present bunch of uniformly grey politicians are far too smooth, superficial and patently insincere and untrustworthy. Where are the characters such as Churchill, Nye Bevan and George Brown? Or am I getting cynical in my old age?
Robert Page, Nottingham UK

It's an election. No one takes risks, therefore it's boring. There are very few real differences between the two main parties. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Jason, London, UK

Why doesn't the BBC make the election more interesting by going round with candidates from UKIP and the Greens in their target setas.
David, London, UK

The election would be a whole lot more interesting if we had live interviews with politicians on the main news broadcasts, instead of 2nd hand reports on staged soundbites and news conferences. Is it the politicians who are refusing to give interviews, or the programme makers who aren't pushing for them? I heard John Humphrys vs Jack Straw on Radio 4 a couple of mornings ago and it was brilliant, gripping stuff - how much better if we were able to see it at 10pm on BBC1. So come on Beeb, feed us some live politicians!
David Keen, Darlington, Co Durham

Recently I got an opportunity to looked at archived newspaper articles from every election campaign from 1983 onwards. In EVERY single election, the consensus was that this time's campaign had been "Particularly Lacklustre". That includes Labour's unprecedented landslide in 1997, John Major's photo finish win in 1992, and the 1987 campaign that had the Conservative's wobbly Thursday. Imagine my surprise when Frederick Forsyth, appearing on BBC Breakfast news last week, commented that the trouble was, this campaign, uniquely it seemed, was Particularly lacklustre. In 2009 or 2010, or whenever the next election is, I predict that anything short of an invasion by Martians demanding that the poll tax be reintroduced combined with Elvis rising from the dead to pen UKIP's campaign song, will lead to that campaign being described as Particularly Lacklustre.
Danny Callaghan, London, England

Has anyone pointed out to the Greens that photovoltaic cells use more energy to produce than they can possibly generate in their working lifetime? They're, well, not very green.
Al Storer, St Austell, Cornwall

Hear hear. The people who cite "they're all the same anyway" as a reason for not taking an interest have been blinded by that very lack of interest. Who can honestly say that there would be no difference in a UK run by Howard and a UK run by Blair... no differences? Hmm.
Steve Piercy, Edinburgh

Well I'm not bored with the election. I think it has been fascinating. What I am upset with is the incompetence that the police have shown in allowing the home of the Deputy Prime Minister to be violated in the way that your report suggests. I think that politicians deserve to have their home and their family unaffected by there involvement in politics. What about the damage to the home? It's a disgrace and the Chief Constable should be holding his head in shame.
Phil Bateman

The media could make the election more interesting if they threatened to focus on the opposition in each constituency during a party leader visit unless they start talking to local, random voters instead of this stage-managed theatre we are being fed day after day.
John O'Connell, Staines, England

It must have been very upsetting for Mrs Prescott to hear people climbing on her house in the middle of the night. So long as they give me some notice, though, I wonder if the Greenpeace protesters would consider installing solar panels on my house too? (I could also do with some loft insulation, double glazing and draught excluders.)
Helen Dunn, Nottingham

Al Storer: Where's your evidence? I've quickly Googled and found a report [2000] from an Australian university [ http://www.oilcrisis.com/apollo2/pvepbtoz.htm ] that states that at that time PV installations produced the energy used to manufacure them within 8-11 years and could expect to last 30 years. Not brilliant, but not bad either. They also expect that the 'payback time' would reduce to two years. People keep on spouting this tosh about wind and solar, but it simply isn't true. The government urgently needs to increase the installation of solar roofs in this country.
Timothy, Exeter, UK

Of course it's boring. The political parties have got everyone debating on the colour of the wallpaper we want in 'House UK' instead of getting everyone to debate the fact that we could all move house and have a 'real choice'.
Tom, York, UK

Why not come to towns that are not marginal...? like Telford!
Shaun Davies , Telford, Shrophshire

Why has no politician so far thought of addressing those younger voters who will have to pick up the [environment] pieces after the profligate use of energyand other natural resources by their parents and grandparents ? Nothing boring about that.
Ferrand, Ludlow

It is very easy to call this election boring as we have been used the past US elections and all the pomp that come with that. I agree that this election is far from boring. If you look between the lines you'll see the Government is being eaten away from all sides. I can't wait to see the results. We'll clearly still have a Labour Government but what will their majority be?
Charlie, Loughborough, Leicestershire

This will be the first time I will have been able to vote in a General Election due to my age and I think the biggest problem with the Election seeming "boring" is that in general politics are considered "boring" and a waste of time by many of the younger generation because times have moved on but our political system hasn't. The pace of life is a lot quicker in current times and the things people would like to see happen in the country never happen or at least not in the time frame people expect it to. People also feel, especially students at the moment with the top up fees that no matter what they say the Government will do it their way like it or lump it. Why should people be interested in politics when it isn't made clear that their voice is important everyday not just the one where 'X marks the spot'. I would really like to see the 'first past the post' system scrapped so we dont get these huge differences in seat numbers in the commons between the parties and we would have a better spread
Daniel Trimm, Birmingham UK

Exactly, it's not necessarily a boring campaign, there is a lot of history and current affairs fusing to make a very watchable campaign. What doesn't help is that people reporting on it just repeat the same stuff over and over again. What is interesting to us? Paxman questioning the leaders like he does! What isn't? Yet another news story that goes on about what we've already seen in the morning. But lets not turn it into more of a soap opera, that's as likely to turn off voters as make them tune in.
Lee, Bristol

If you, like us, are toiling every day working for a political party, you wouldn't think it was boring. We meet all the cranks, the weirdos, the politically inept, ignoramuses (or should it be ignoramii) and some really nice, interesting, and very concerned individuals. We don't have much time to see TV or listen to the radio, and do get very annoyed at the adversarial and offensive interviewing that seems to be the accepted norm nowadays. Considerate and listening interview techniques would be welcomed, and far more effective both for the individual politicians and for the viewers or listeners. Less 'comment' and more reporting might be a good journalistic lesson to be learned by some of our prominent commentators.
Val and Fred Price, Malmesbury

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