What is your honest take on how politicians communicate now?

[Northernah]

The biggest improvement would be politicians showing their working. If a policy costs £2 billion, explain where the £2 billion comes from. If a target is going to take ten years, say that instead of promising instant transformation

Too much political communication jumps straight from problem to grand promise while skipping the awkward middle section where implementation happens

That middle section is usually where the interesting questions live. Who administers it? What happens if demand is higher than expected? Which groups lose out? What happens if the assumptions turn out to be wrong?

None of that makes a politician sound exciting, which is probably why it receives so little attention

There is a strong argument that journalists should spend more time asking those questions too. Political interviews often focus on whether someone used an offensive phrase rather than whether their proposed programme is mathematically plausible

Public broadcasters, newspapers and online creators all have incentives to chase drama because drama gets attention. Politicians are adapting to those incentives rather than creating them from scratch

The encouraging part is that there is clearly an audience for better discussion. Whenever a genuinely good long-form interview appears, people do watch it. Maybe the answer is not making politics less complicated, but making the complicated parts easier to access