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Today was the first crisp cold morning as befits the First of December and considering that most of this blog is about my personal ramblings on ‘politics’, it set my mind to thinking around the current state of UK Politics with Christmas less than 4 weeks away and 2010 almost upon us.

Over these past couple of weeks, political journalism has taken a big nosedive and there is only one person to blame for this, Gordon Brown a politician who has not only passed his “Display By Date” long since but also the “Use By” one too, in short he is no longer fit for consumption and should have called a General Election in the Autumn.

Total Boredom

The other week due to one opinion poll (rather slanted it would appear) that showed Labour narrowing the Tory lead, we then had endless articles in all the broadsheets concerning “Hung Parliaments. From this a short hop to: “Did the Tories Damage their prospects by being too honest ?”

Now to be honest, I am not too sure about Opinion Polls, they only seem to “sample” about 1-2,000 people at the most and, I’ve never ever met anybody who took part in one anyway. On top of that, if ever I was personally asked my opinion, I would deliberately set out to mislead by all means possible and I suspect that most normal people would too !

Yesterday William Rees Mogg wrote interestingly on the work being done in the marginal seats by both the Conservatives and the Liberals. I saw other writers addressing the impact of UKIP on key Tory seats and the possibility of them costing the Tories an overall majority by “letting other parties” take otherwise “winnable” seats for the Tories.

Who Would Want Their Job ?

Given the time of year where the focus shifts to family and friends plus frenetic shopping, just what can political columnists drum up to write about ? We will inevitably see mountains of speculation based upon “What if this, what if that ?” simply because there is a vacuum at the heart of British Politics that will not be solved until a General Election is called.

Even on this, the speculation of early May to coincide with Council Elections has given way to March if the economic data is bad…The key problem is that there are very few unknowns in the mix, as a consequence political journalists of all shades of opinion, are racking their brains to write something, anything at all which can make the current situation look interesting, excitement would be a bridge too far.

But for the fact that there is a whole “Media Industry” built around politics, the best thing to do would be to totally ignore Parliament until the election is called because frankly, trying to write interesting copy about politics right now is akin to a Soccer journalist who specializes in writing “Match Reports”, trying to write interesting stuff during the Summer when no matches are being played.

The Reality:

Is pretty simple and the opinion of the “Gingerbread Group” or any others with “special interests” will not change it, the national mindset is likely pretty set already, “Gordon and Labour Goes” simply because whether you are Right or Left of Centre, New Labour has totally failed at every level and every ‘benchmark’ it set itself and it is a time for “Change”.

It is the very word “Change” that delineates all. Not the same as before, different and capable of a majority, this latter being key to the vote. Yes, there as those who on auto-pilot would vote for Labour, LibDem or Conservative or in addition, UDP, Sinn Fein, SNP, Plaid and so forth. But, in terms of who forms the next UK Government, all take second place to those who either vote Conservative or Labour that will win the day and those votes will be cast in English constituencies rather than the Celtic Nations.

In this context, just how ‘useful’ are votes for “whatever Celtic Political Party” anyway ?

Don’t get me wrong here, ‘total respect’ for Celts having their own ‘voice’ on the things that matter to them but, in the context of a “United Kingdom” and national politics, most of them are “Having a Wank” at the taxpayer’s expense and high time they grew up. The next election is a “General Election”, time they took a National View and voted for ‘progress’ rather than just ‘tribal loyalties’.

This of course both possible and unlikely, they will continuing play with themselves and leaving it all up to the English to decide, as they always have and much to their disgrace.

Conclusion

Gordon Brown is a total Moran who should never, ever have been elected to “High Office”, his departure, whenever the Election is called and regardless of the political complexion of the next Government, will enhance the reputation of the UK beyond compare.

He and his useless Government should have already departed and my personal wish is that in return for this “total arrogance”, all are swept from Office in a landslide that makes 1997 seem “marginal”, the Labour Party is a snot grovelling disgrace that it even has the temerity to still exist.