With weeks of confected outrage, bad acting, shouty campaigning and utter trivia facing us in the run-up to July 4, the general election can’t come soon enough for the beleaguered British voters. Those of us who remember a time before social media have come to expect little more than the juvenile squabbling and tribal pettiness that now characterises political activism, although I’m not sure it was a great deal better before. A week into the campaign and many political commentators still seem strangely fixated on the ‘optics’ of Rishi Sunak’s election date announcement and the fact he got a bi…