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So last evening we had the third and last “Leaders TV Debates” and personally, I hope that they are not repeated in subsequent elections. There was an interesting comment on what Mervyn King was alleged to have said, well worth a glance:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100005270/king-election-winner-will-be-out-of-power-for-a-generation/

In addition the Independent ran another totally daft Editorial which elicited some resonse from me:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leadi ng-articles/leading-article-voters-should-consider-judgement-above-all-1958433.html

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Today’s newspapers are of course full of the “Gordon, Mrs Duffy and Rochdale” story, the majority of which, speak of the Great Gordo’s imminent downfall. Of course a few try to downplay the whole thing which is frankly a little silly given that the last of the TV Debates is on this evening and some mention of it is inevitable.

I notice that the Independent has yet another person on ‘Work Experience’ writing Editorials with little clue how to write a headline: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-more-a-lapse-than-a-catastrophe-1957034.html

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I am sure that it will really stress him prior to the last TV Debate tomorrow and I certainly do want him to be thrown out of Downing Street next week but the Media hullabaloo about Gordon Brown calling someone a “bigot”, is rather misplaced. I though far more ‘concerning’ was his need to find someone else to blame: “Who put me with that woman ?”

The most amusing thing was watching Hattie Harmon trying to diffuse the situation live on TV. I don’t like the woman with her rather pompous interfering ways but I will give her credit, she did come out to bat. No doubt the Media will make much of it tomorrow but I thought a Labour Candidate having to be cut out of her car after ploughing through a roundabout was rather more reprehensible. I must be getting soft in my old age, I just hope the electorate is getting wise and we don’t have a hung Parliament…

Although I do like the Independent newspaper, by and large, they do have a tendency to write hair brained Editorials from time to time, a bit like they have some ‘Nutter’ locked in a broom cupboard who they let out once in a while while the rest of them go down the Pub, it is really quite odd.

I suppose it could be someone who forgets to take their medication from time to time but never-the-less, today they managed another one. This time it was to attack Cameron over the “Broken Society” theme: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-david-camerons-cynical-moral-panic-1956107.html

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This Election has become increasingly less credible by the day. Initially there was little interest and a general view of a “Plague Upon Both Your Houses…” then and after the first TV Debate, the Media ‘talked up Clegg’ as a possible winner although interestingly, ordinary members of the public who watched it, didn’t see it quite that way.

To me, it is all a bit like “We are going to have a barbecue Summer…” and after a few showers, the perception has grown that rather than a ‘typical English Summer’ things are far worse and if asked, people respond accordingly. I suspect that the whole Nick Clegg thing is the same and would not be surprised to find on May 7^th, they had not that many more seats than they currently hold today.

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Another Monday, another and final TV Debate to come on Thursday, how truly boring this week ahead looks. Old BoJo launched an interesting thought as he so often does in today’s Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/7633409/General-Election-2010-Only-two-can-play-which-leaves-no-room-in-the-game-for-Labour.html

Never-the-less, the only other thing was a ‘student’ acosting David Cameron in what was only too obviously a ‘set-up’ which Cameron dealt with very well and the alleged ‘student’ never ever clearly ‘on camera’ so that she could be recognised. The BBC really is a crock of shit these days and can anyone feel any compassion for whatever subsequently befalls this “tax sucking” bunch of losers and regardless of who forms the next Government ? No, I suspect is the answer, the ‘Licence Fee’ or at least a significant part of it, is up for grabs !

The Independent today published one of their increasingly ‘immature’ editorials, do they get people on “work experience” to write them ? http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-hurrah-for-democracy-1953549.html. This elicited a response from an ‘obviously’ die hard Labour supporter, my response: “ So you don’t like David Cameron, so what but, does your blindness have consequences for your judgement ?”

The Editorial too was a bit limp too because there is an awful sickening reality behind all of this regardless of political party or policies, love them or loath them, the Conservatives under Cameron are likely the “only game in town” currently and the reason is simply because they have more ‘people to call on’ than either of the other two. Regardless of the outcome, this General Election will see one of the largest intakes of new MPs we have ever seen and will exceed that of 1997.”

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One of the oddest issues to come out of the current election campaign was raised by Nick Clegg who wants the Trident Replacement included in the Defence Review that will have to be undertaken after the General Election, whoever forms the next Government.

Although one may say that because of the projected cost, some £20bn, of course any politician would want to review it but then again and as Clegg seems to accept the need for a replacement but then strays into technical areas he is not competent in, he is raising the wrong issue or, not asking the right questions…

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There was an amusing lead story in the Independent today about the “Tories being wrong about the threat of a financial funding crisis if there is a hung parliament. It took three people to write it and the result is frankly a bit threadbare unless the “Indy” is now the “Voice of the LibDems which, it may well be. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-claims-that-hung-parliament-would-cause-meltdown-are-dismissed-1952954.html

The basic proposition behind the article is fundamentally flawed because it makes a number of untrue assumptions…

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We have had the second TV Debate and by all accounts, it was a ‘draw’ with no one person being declared a ‘winner’. I suppose the question is: ‘Do I care ?’ and the most likely answer is NO because if the British electorate want to pull their heads under their collective “Duvets”, I can hardly be that bothered and besides which, reducing politics to “X Factor” and “Strictly Come Dancing” status, is hardly a good sign of a ‘vibrant democracy’, is it ?

In the follow up in the DT on the ‘personal finances’ pages was the following and the author was mainly concerned with explaining why, if you were buying a new mortgage… The responses amount to the hilarious as well as mainly inane: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/7623640/How-a-hung-parliament-could-hit-you-in-the-pocket.html

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