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Well we are now off and running thank Heavens but I have to say based upon first impressions, we are in for a pretty dire 4 weeks of total bollocks.

We know who the politicians are and to be honest, I suspect that the decision was already made last year, Brown out and Cameron in. A quick scan of the on-line press this evening just about sums it all up – total crap and already the impression that 4 weeks may just be far too long by 27 days, I’m feeling tired already and I’m interested in politics !

No Titanic Struggle

Watching Brown, Cameron and Clegg on the BBC web site made me realise just how brain dead Brown is and totally impervious to any sense of guilt about the mess he has put us in. It is not the Global Financial crisis and the vast amount of money to keep the Banks afloat and functioning, yes I accept that was outside of any control. But I do object to the underlying ‘structural deficit’, the public sector pensions mess, PFI and the 800,000 extra public sector workers since 1997. Brown should have been honest and “fessed up” to making mistakes but he hasn’t.

Clegg is hopeless and so is the Liberal Democratic Party, I hope the smug idiots get a trouncing in the polls because these past two years were their ‘window of opportunity’ to get within reaching distance of power in their own right. Faced with the most unpopular Government of any party in this post WWII period, they should have replaced Labour as the second party in the opinion polls instead of, as usual trailing in third place.

Cameron seems the only game in town frankly and whether luck runs with him or not, he can hardly make a very much worse hand than Labour has done and at least we will have some fresh faces and voices to be heard. Preferably devoid of the Scottish accents which in the end even Labour belatedly realised wasn’t playing well for them, it is noticeable how under Brown they were gradually removed from the front line.

The TV Debates

Dear Lord preserve us from this nonsense, apart from the Media, Party Hacks and the ‘Faithful’, who on earth is going to watch them ?

As I am in the middle of redecorating the whole house, the TV is totally buried in a bedroom and surrounded by other furniture plus, the lounge where the Ariel connection is, is stripped bare. Even if I felt vaguely inclined to put all that together which I wont until the paint has dried and new carpet laid, would I watch them ?

To be honest, even if I could, likely I wouldn’t anyway – life is far too short to waste time on such nonsense and if all runs true to form, the “highlights” will take whatever is said by whoever, totally out of context.

It is a ‘Media Event’ for the media and I doubt that it will have much impact either apart from the “Gay, Atheist Mafia” that run the media these days, having something to dribble over. Roll on May 7th when I hope we can have a new start without Brown, Harmon, Straw, Balls + Appendage, the Brothers Moribund, Lord Mandybum and the rest of that awful crew.

Mr Cock Up

I have written before that Brown is the unluckiest PM on the planet and in British political history, if anything can go wrong on his watch, it does. I thought the orange faced Blair appearing as the ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ was a total hoot, how on earth was that supposed to help the Labour Party ?

However, what I found really interesting considering the anger quite a lot of people still feel towards Blair over Iraq, his appearance did emphasise just how disconnected he now is from the British political scene. Considering he was such a powerful political presence only a couple of years back, he seemed in many ways ‘diminished’ and really quite irrelevant.

Mind you, to round off a Bank Holiday weekend well for the Conservatives, the “Ashes to Ashes” poster cock up by Labour was even funnier because how quickly the Tories turned it back on them, particularly the credit line of the “idea being donated by Labour”, excellent !