Real issues that matter

I sometimes wonder how many hours have been spent discussing and re-discussing the leadership election. While this is very important the world continues to turn. Only today it has been announced that the number of people our of work and claimining benefits has increased for the sixth month in a row.

This is before the supposed Civil Service reductions promised by Gordon Brown, which have mysteriously failed to materialise.

Party commentators say they want to engage with real people. Well here is an issue that real people care about. I'm not sure the same can be said about the leadership contest.