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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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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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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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Nothing much to report. Mr Smug, Nick Clegg is now under the sort of scrutiny by the Media he is not used to and about time too, he has been “Up To It” the same as the rest whilst condemning other MPs in all sorts of ways. Lovely and I hope they really screw the lying Toad. Of course we have the second TV Debate today and no, I really can’t be ‘arsed’ to watch it because what I see and what the desperate Media see will be different. For the totally stupid, the Media will tell them what they saw.

Of course and if they do, we run the risk of “A Plague on all your Houses…” from the soft bellied British public but frankly and until they wake up again, does it matter ? They will moan and bitch whatever happens because they have yet to realise that they have had their “Bread and Circuses” period, it is now time for the “Hard Times” and a purging of the Spirit.

Well the whole thing grinds on but there are some interesting straws in the wind which I am sure will pass the bovine electorate and Nick Clegg by completely. In this morning’s Telegraph was an interesting article on “Sovereign Debt” and the potential threat of it bringing about another financial crisis, worth a look: “Sovereign debt tops IMF worries”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7611787/Sovereign-debt-tops-IMF-worries.html

I have written before that this election should be seen by the electorate as less as a matter of “Politics” and more “Economics” and this does give rise to some interesting thoughts concerning the immediate future for us in these British Isles. Now whilst addmittedly “speculative” by nature as with any ‘crystal ball gazing’, I thought I might share my thoughts.

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We are at an amusing moment in this election campaign but “A Week is a long time in politics”. This mornings news in one poll was that Clegg and the LibDems were ahead of the Conservatives with Labour trailing third and if that were true, a “Hung Parliament” would be a certainty which would have serious and immediate financial consequences for the people of these Islands.

David Cameron’s view of a hung parliament is pretty spot on as there would most certainly be another General Election within the year and from the first day of a new Parliament, all the parties will be ‘positioning’ themselves for that rather than taking care of business. Westminster would fiddle whilst the UK burnt.

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All rather embarrasing, I seem to becoming a bit of a “Groupie” of the journalist John Rentoul who writes for the Independent but the simple truth is that he is one of the few who writes with any common sense.

Here is yet another excellent piece of professional journalism and a thoughtful analysis of the current situation which contrasts so strongly against the spurious rubbish most of the Media has managed to date.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-clegg-a-triumph-of-antipolitics-1947679.html

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Another not very interesting day. The Media are flying around with their skirsts up around their ears shouting that  a “Hung Parliament” is a certainty because of a one off performance by Nick Clegg the other night. And all that has happened as a consequence is that Sterling has wobbled further downwards against both the US Dollar and the Euro, a harbinger of things yet to come if the electorate continue to dither.

Like ‘em, loath ‘em or love ‘em, there is only one choice on May 6th, vote Conservative and give them a decent working majority. Mind you, from Cameron’s point of view, this would be a good election to lose, there will be no prizes in 5 years time for sorting the economic mess out, unlike ‘Maggie’ and the Falklands Factor, Dave is not likely to be that lucky, both ends of this spoon are “shitty”.