Gracesgran
I do agree with your post 09.39, one week the Tories are in the frame , another week the Labour Party are in the frame. Depends on the topic of the day, the flavour of the month scenario.
I fully understand the reason why the EU debate is centering on the Tories as without doubt they are a divided party on the EU , have been for years. The irony is the likes of Tony Benn and Corbyn would have voted with vote leave over the years., that's not spin or playing party politics it is a fact. For the most part Labour have a small group of MP's who are vote leave campaigners and are not making much of an impression as I suppose they are few in number and the media interest is simply not there. Another week it will be all about Labours problems and their obvious disharmony, that's the way it goes, round and round and round.
Why I agree with your post is I feel that technology has 'without a shadow of doubt' in my mind opened a can of worms that no politician can hide from, openness and anonymity. If they f-rt on a on a Monday the smell will be reported by Tuesday probably. This applies to all party's but the focus will inevitably be aimed at Labour and the Tories as they are the biggest groups.
I think the fact we can view past speeches , view t.v. interviews, check facts on google etc.so easily does give us the voter more of an interest in politics as we probably are now more aware of how the system works, what makes it tick. There is undoubtedly a case that activism and politics belong in some cases to families who would never vote for another party, the old, if a monkey stood for election as long as it wore the right colour rosette they would vote for a monkey to represent them gag. However I feel the general public does talk more about politics, has become more engaged in politics and are more aware of when they see spin and hypocrisy as opposed to honesty, this is down to programmes such as This Week, Question Time being engaging for us to view and talk about , gone are the days when politics meant only going to union meetings or political rallies, we have it brought to us and we can decide for ourselves what we believe is best . We need no longer to rely on political bias or spin, we can decypher information for ourselves.
I think for most people it doesn't matter which party is being spoken of as long as it is truthful rhetoric. I don't think most people are stupid enough to believe all things they see and hear , unless of course it is from the horses mouth, even then some will argue the point. As you say there is nowhere to hide and one thing that can be guaranteed in this media based, technological age is 'be careful what you say and do or it might just come back and bite you on the backside'.