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Today Nick Clegg was featured in the Independent spouting off about what kind of post election deal he would be looking for and so on, I am just not convinced and neither I suspect are the electorate at large. On top of that, I am not that sure that a “Hung Parliament” will actually come about either, I suspect that the public will choose between more of Brown and Labour or David Cameron.

The reality is that Clegg and the LibDems have failed miserably to capitalize on Labours weakened position over these past two years. By now in the polls, the LibDems should have pushed Labour into third place on a potential 17-18 percent of the vote and they haven’t.

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I know that the Independent along with most papers in ‘Fleet Street’ is suffering financial problems since the “paid for by advertising” business model they all relied upon collapsed and to be honest, is not likely to return in the future but, that is no excuse to continue being stupid.

Although it is really a bit of a dead duck, in their main editorial today, Sunday, they return to the Lord Ashcroft story again. The last time they did this, some 90% of the people who wrote in dismissed the story as just Labour Party election campaigning and so on.

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The Independent in their infinite wisdom is trying hard to make some significant mileage out of the Lord Ashcroft and his domicile/tax status none of which I find remotely interesting or relevant however to Labour and the “Cleggies”, they are very frightened of Ashcroft.

The reason because he has been carefully targeting over 100 key marginal seats which could prove crucial if the current national polls are anything near correct come polling day. In fact what Ashcroft is doing is exactly what the LibDems should have been doing for these past two years in order to displace the Labour Party as the alternative party to the Conservatives.

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I must admit to becoming a fan of one of the regular Independent columnists John Rentoul because although I think his natural instincts are likely left wing, his approach is very broad and he examines issues without bias and lots of common sense.

Today he was writing on the narrowing of the polls between Labour and the Conservatives, well worth a read: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-policies-smash-personalities-1912985.html

And another one but if one is crystal ball gazing, well worth a read: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-convention-says-voters-like-big-spending-governmentsits-wrong-1912836.html

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Sometimes it might be better not to write some Editorials and a prime example was this one in the Independent today on Lord Ashcroft funding and directing the Tory campaign in over 100 key marginal seats. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-how-money-can-distort–the-democratic-process-1912359.html

The whole Lord Ashcroft thing is rather boring in the sense that the Law bans foreign nationals from funding British Politics for obvious reasons but a British national who arranges his affairs to minimise tax is hardly the same case. Also one might question the Labour Party’s acceptance of the support of Rupert Murdoch and the Sun Newspaper, he is now an American citizen and before that, Australian. Some people do not only write total crap, they obviously think it too.

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The former Europe Minister Denis MacShane wrote an article on the EU intended to show that the EU is wonderful and the “Beastly Tories” will detach us from it which given the difficulties Greece is currently in, hardly seems a sensible approach to reality.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/denis-macshane-shame-on-those-now-sneering-at-the-european-project-1900566.html

However as an election has to take place in months, the Labour Party is dragging “any old has been” off the back benches to write “wicked Tory” articles on any and every topic they can, what a sad sack of shit this Labour Government has become.

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On Sunday we shall see Gordon Brown on the Piers Morgan on ITV Show, talking emotionally about the death of his daughter, Jennifer.

The Times in an Editorial has lambasted him for this and for their reasons follow this link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article7024184.ece

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To my mind, the most disturbing feature of the MPs “Expenses Scandal” has been the obsequious behaviour of the Media in being unprepared to tackle the real issues involved head on, like politicians themselves, they appear too scared of the “public outrage”.

This public outrage I suspect, has as much to do with with the pomposity of the Labour Government and in particular one Gordon Brown who it is now clear, made a total horlicks of the UK economy whilst Chancellor whilst boasting that he had abolished Boom and Bust. In addition, this Parliament has effectively been dead since sometime during 2008, there should have been a 2009 election and political clear out of Westminster then.

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The loss yesterday of the US Senate Seat held by Edward Kennedy for almost 50 years to the Republican Scott Brown is seen as a blow to the Obama Presidency on his first anniversary of becoming President. This can be seen as a great snub to his plans for Health Care Reform and so on but in a sense, this is an inevitable step along the way.

Rather like the marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer all those years ago, the “expectations” of an Obama Presidency – “Yes We Can.” far exceeded any reality on delivery in a recession. In this though lies some serious food for thought for David Cameron and his Team as they prepare for Government…

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Although obviously a Labour supporter, a regular contributor to the Independent is John Rentoul who often writes very interesting articles that concentrate on trying to analyse the issues rather than trotting out left wing propaganda, he is always worth reading.

His article in Sunday’s edition is very well worth a read: “How many years out in the cold?” Sub heading; “Labour is likely to lose the general election. Its main concern now is damage limitation “ http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-how-many-years-out-in-the-cold-1870275.html

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