This is the most important election ever – let’s get our facts right.

By Ellie Mae O’Hagan.

Let’s face it. Things aren’t great are they? I won’t reel off a list of figures about inequality, living standards, and the super-rich, but things aren’t great.

Now we have a general election to think about. Judging by the furore around a pink bus this week, the whole thing will be an unedifying spectacle characterised more by trivial distractions than real issues.