On Monday, I went to an event held at the Battersea Arts Centre in which Ed Milliband talked to an audience drawn from the recently established Creative Industries Federation about what will be the arts policy of an incoming Labour goverment.   Most of it was fairly uncontentious, filled with good intentions, but no promises which might cost money.   What I have been digesting from attending open fora with speeches from the floor on both Monday and Tuesday is the depth of public feeling and anger about many issues of current public policy and indeed attitudes to the polity as a whole.   I wasn’t convinced that this strength of feeling was reflected on the podium.