Has an upcoming UK general election ever looked like such a pointless exercise as the one Catholics will be facing on 4 July. The Catholic vote does not seem to be sought after at all by anyone, and most party leaders and politicians are inordinately out of touch with Catholic thought.
Apart from, of all people, George Galloway, the maverick politician and TV pundit who made headlines this year by winning the Rochdale by-election and wrenching it away from Labour.
If you had asked me last week what I thought of George Galloway, I would have said he holds politically extreme views which are far from my own, and I do not completely disavow that view. But it turns out there is a much more endearing side to him, particularly if you are a Catholic.
