I can't remember exactly when the General Election campaign started, in many ways it was soon as the referendum result was announced last September.

This campaign has been remarkably different from others for the attention Scotland has received.

David Cameron has been here, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, Nick Clegg have all been visitors as they know the composition of Scotland's 59 MPs will be hugely important when the race in England is so tight.

And much of that focus has been in Glasgow where at times you could be forgiven for thinking this was where the whole election was being fought.

The political elite have paid attention to the people here because the people have been paying them close attention.

When votes are considered secure in one area, the politicians quickly move on to somewhere where they have to work hard.

In Glasgow, Labour and the SNP have had to work hard as no seat was considered safe for either.

During the campaign I witnessed the big stage managed events, like the manifesto launches where the big stage is set up and everything carefully planned for favourable television coverage.

The SNP launch in a climbing centre carved out of a quarry outside Edinburgh was huge.

Labour chose Tollcross swimming pool in Glasgow east, where Margaret Curran somehow managed to persuade anyone who is anyone in Labour to come and help her re-election bid.

The Tories, with David Cameron in town were at the Emirates arena all three were in from of invited audiences.

The best campaign events I was at, just like during the referendum were those organised not by the parties but by the people.

Community groups putting on hustings events to give voters in communities the chance to quiz the would be MP's

Housing associations, churches, campaign groups all out of a sense of civic duty spending time and resources on the democratic process.

At the launches the questions were from journalists and from some invited guests about the nuts and bolts of policy and who would do a deal with who.

At FARE in Easterhouse the questions were from people who live in the communities experiencing the problems of rising bills, low wages and benefit cuts and sanctions.

At the Poverty Alliance event in Woodlands the questions came from people with direct experience of poverty and form those working in organisations trying to support them.

Politicians are under most scrutiny when they are put directly in front of the public, with no stage managing.

There is nowhere to hide in a room of 40 people and a voter wants an answer to a direct question.

If politics is truly to have changes in Scotland then politicians need to be more accountable to the public and that means facing them in the raw on a regular basis.