Boris vs Corbyn: the impossible choice at this election

How do you weigh a once-in-a-generation transfer of power from private sector to public sector and from capital to labour, against an irreversible rupture with the European Union?

That is the choice being offered to voters, by Labour and the Tories respectively.

Talk about chalk and cheese, or bicycles versus fish. How on earth do you decide, if you haven’t made up your mind already, which you like best?

You could argue that the desire among some voters to squeeze the private sector’s pips till they squeak and those that want to take a chainsaw to the UK’s ties with the EU – with only a relatively small group apparently wanting both – stem from similar social and economic causes. Namely that the way we’ve run this place has eroded the living standards, security and a sense of being heard for millions of people, especially those outside the big metropolises, as well as among the young.