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David Laws who was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under the Coalition and despite a promising start especially in the House of Commons last week, has had to resign due to the Daily Telegraph exposing that he is Gay and had been paying his boyfriend rent on his house though paying a ‘partner’ rent has been banned since 2006, apparently. He is wealthy in his own right having made his money in “The City” by the age of 28.

He has said that the reason he did this was he wanted to keep his private life and sexuality secret which one might say that in these apparently “more liberated days”, seems sad but coming out to family and friends will never be easy and childhood background plus ‘assumed social norms’ could intimidate most people but never the less, it is a sad loss though, the clear and ‘warm’ support he received from David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg over his resignation was a nice touch.

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Well it is Sunday and yet another interesting article in the Independent by John Rentoul: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-the-gents-definitely-for-turning-1980437.html

John’s article is worth a read. John Rentoul is ‘known’ as a Tony Blair fan and his insights into David Cameron, originally aired as the “Heir to Blair” are quite interesting because overall, his view is favourable but he does not see him as any kind of Blair clone at all.

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Matthew Parris a former Conservative MP and not known as someone with a particularly soft heart wrote a very upbeat piece on the Times about the new Coalition Government having sat in the Garden of Downing Street to see the fist joint news conference given by David Cameron as PM and Nick Clegg as his Deputy.

“The political earthquake in the rose garden. It almost felt as if a divine hand was at work, bringing together two men to blow away years of staleness.” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article7124533.ece

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Today, Gordon Brown announced that he was ‘standing down’ as Labour Party Leader but insisted that he stayed on as Prime Minister to “oversee” a Lib/Lab pact which wont deliver a Parliamentary majority without being reliant on any and every demand made by Celtic fringe political parties so that, is not good news and it got worse.

Nick Clegg can’t ‘deliver’ the Parliamentary Liberal Democrat Party so, they are running parallel discussions with both the Conservatives and Labour on forming a “Coalition Government” and the Tories have ‘upped’ their offer to maximum, a Referendum on the electoral system. Unfortunately, most LibDem MPs would favour Labour over the Tories so, it looks like we are headed to Hell in a hand cart and another election by September…Oh Joy !

Between now and then, all we can expect is a worsening “financial situation” followed by a Conservative landslide at the second General Election of 2010 with for a few months, David Muppetband as Prime Minister…the cowardly little runt.

There is a rather good article by Matthew Parris in today’s Times called: “Cameron’s hand is strong and he’ll play it well” worth a read although some of the readers comments are very odd as the Times practises quite annal censorship of those so, who knows http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article7120060.ece

The Independents lead Editorial was rather pathetic: “A result that confirms our electoral system is broken”: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-result-that-confirms-our-electoral-system-is-broken-1968245.html

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“Politics is the art of the possible” and all the ‘blather’ from both pro and anti EU people will not change the hard fact that the reason the “Lisbon Treaty” was not put to a Referendum here as in most other EU Countries because as in the Netherlands and France disguised as the “EU Constitution” it would have been rejected outright across a majority of EU countries.

In the UK this may, indicate an ‘Insular Mentality’ or, an ‘audience quite prepared to be sold’ the concept. There will never be a “Sales Text Book” written that does not point out that ‘objections’ are in fact ‘buying signals’ that just call for further information to confirm the deal.

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The Independent once again led with another ‘cringe worthy’ editorial on what essentially is a ‘vote LibDem’ ticket which I wouldn’t mind except that they try to dress up their prejudices with ‘grandiose: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-this-historic-opportunity-must-not-be-missed-1962527.html My view on this is:

It is very simple, if you want to vote LibDem, then do so, it is not illegal between consenting adults in the privacy of the poll booth, as far as I know. But do not prattle on about PR being “a great principle of the age”, it really isn’t, the public just don’t give a toss about it. In terms of popular politics, PR is as about as burning an issue as the EU for most voters, whilst the “devotees” of either cause will bang on endlessly about it, nobody in the mainstream is even slightly bothered.

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Well here we are, the penultimate day of campaigning and I have given up reading or writing into the newspapers on-line, all the coverage is worthless and the opinions, at best tribal at worse totally nonsensical. To be honest and whilst this has been a difficult election to ‘call’, I don’t think that the Media has done a good job, for the most part it has been total crap.

For the LibDems, the lesson they must surely learn is that they have no need of PR to get elected as the Government but, they do need the right people and the right policies. In Clegg, they have someone who appeals to a section of the electorate but apart from him, they are lacking in plausible people.

The thing that I think has damaged them are their policies which are poorly thought out and when examined but the public, put the majority off, as a party they need to change an awful lot and the PR thing shows up as little better than special pleading by them. They definitely need to abandon their “EU at any price” stance, in these EU sceptic islands, that is a big vote loser.

Well there are now only three days left and then we all get to vote and what the public has probably decided already will shape our immediate futures. My hope is that we (a). Don’t have a Hung Parliament and (b). They we do get a Cameron Government with a working majority. Will I get my wish ?

Hard to say really, I suspect that the average elector is playing their cards close to their chests. On the surface, Labour is dead in the water, Clegg and the LibDems are deflating and Cameron is in the ascendant but what that will translate into on Friday, who knows ? However, one of the most crucial events that any new Government will be faced with is the Greek Financial Crisis with its impact on both the Eurozone and the whole EU.

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Now the truth is out and the reason for the appalling bad Editorials in the Independent this past week because today they have come out to encourage people to vote negatively and tactically to “Keep Cameron Out”. What a nasty bunch of shits the Independent on Sunday, Editorial Staff clearly are. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-vote-for-change-real-change-1960288.html

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