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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”.

Absolutely nothing to report and therefore will not bother. Last night we had the first TV Debate, by common consent across the ‘Media’, Clegg shone, Cameron came second and Brown trailed badly so, no surprises there then…

Cameron was generous to Clegg by saying that he had a good debate but quite rightly, concentrated upon what a “Good Experience” it was for him personally, “Why haven’t we done this before ?” My opinion is “Steady, let us wait and see on this one.” The Media enjoyed it, sales opportunities on ad slots abounded but I am highly sceptical of it all, perhaps the weekend will be better..?

Lordy, Lordy, here comes the first TV Debate and the question, is it worth watching ? My personal opinion is rather like “Match of the Day”, watching the ‘highlights and all the goals’ will be far better than the actual thing itself unless you are a total fanatic or a “Media Person”.

Of course the ‘Match Reports’ will vary wildly and depending where you read them and what their particular ‘beef or bias’ lies. If the Main Editorial in the Independent today is anything to go by, in tomorrows Indy, “Clegg Won it, Hands Down…” For a flavour of just how crap this Editorial Staff can be, read this nonsense: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-the-dividing-lines-are-clear-ndash-and-theres-no-reason-to-fear-the-prospect-of-a-hung-parliament-1945055.htm

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Oh dear, day nine and gloom has settled over all the Media with the latest polls indicating a shrinking Tory lead and a poll showing that 32 per cent of the public hope for a hung Parliament, against 28 per cent who want a Tory majority and 22 per cent a Labour one. Lib Dem voters prefer a deal with Labour in a hung Parliament. Lord what a weak and gutless Country we have become.

Labour launched their Manifesto on Monday, the Conservatives yesterday and the LibDems today. The simple fact of the matter is that Party Manifestos from whatever party, are useless in terms of detailed policies and at best “mood music”.

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An interesting article in the Independent by Dominic Lawson today that is worth a read because like a previous article by John Rentoul, it is pointing towards the public being fundamentally dishonest with themselves over “politicians telling the truth” – the public just don’t want to hear it, the truth.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-the-public-want-honesty-but-not-when-it-comes-to-their-taxes-1942927.html

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The Election Campaign limps into its second week and Lord what a yawn it is turning out to be. Today Labour will launch their “Election Manifesto” which will be a bit of a hoot because they have already had 13 years to sort things out under benign economic circumstances and only managed to cock everything up, so now they have “Seen the light ” and wish to be re-elected ? I hardly think so !

The other two will launch their ‘Manifestos’ too but frankly and under the current economic circumstances, these also will be pious hopes rather than specific promises and all that can be expected. The Media will get themselves up in a lather about the first “Leaders TV Debate” this Thursday which I suspect will turn out to be a non event if not just a real yawn.

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The Times seems to be sucking a fart out of Brown’s arse these days, Lord knows why except one suspects that the “Sun” having come out for the Tories, Murdoch thinks it ‘politic’ to have one of his titles backing Brown just in case he wins, on such cynicism is Murdoch’s reputation built.

The question is; “What would happen if Brown actually won ?” Whilst a totally horrible thought, there would be some serious implications for both the Nation and the Labour Party.

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I read yesterday that likely this will be the most “polled” General Election of all time with up to 70 more being done between now and May 6^th, however the author suggested that they will have no impact on the outcome and the results will mainly only serve to confuse further.

In many ways it already seems like a very odd election and my gut feeling is that the more the Media tries to ‘hype it up’, the more bored people will become with it. Over the “MPs Expenses Scandal”, the common wisdom was that MPs were out of touch with the public, by the same token, I think the Media are generally out of touch with their customers.

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It got off to a good start in the Times with the Peter Brooks cartoon of Brown firing the starting pistol at his own head: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/ Peter Brooks

One of my favourite journalists in John Rentoul was on top form too with a very good article in the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-ill-put-a-wager-on-a-tory-victory-despite-the-known-unknowns-1937450.html

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