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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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Well we are now off and running thank Heavens but I have to say based upon first impressions, we are in for a pretty dire 4 weeks of total bollocks.

We know who the politicians are and to be honest, I suspect that the decision was already made last year, Brown out and Cameron in. A quick scan of the on-line press this evening just about sums it all up – total crap and already the impression that 4 weeks may just be far too long by 27 days, I’m feeling tired already and I’m interested in politics !

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Sometimes one ‘story’ leads to another which whilst related is in fact entirely different. As I am in the throes of major re-decorations and the TV is buried in a room full of furniture, I didn’t see it but there was a TV Debate between Darling, Osborne and Cable – the Three Money Men. To be honest, would I have watched it anyway ? Hmm, rather like the TV Leader Debates, I suspect not.

The Independent wrote an Editorial on this which frankly, I thought a bit crappy but, judge for yourself: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-mr-osborne-has-given-the-voters-something-to-chew-on-1930685.html

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They say that a sign of ageing is when Policemen look “terribly young” but I suspect there is another barometer too. As I have got older, I am increasingly incensed by the total lack of intellect in the British Media generally. This is not based upon other people having and promoting different views to my own but simply that in most situations there is an in-built set of ‘circumstances’ that need to be taken into account, regardless of one’s personal views and conclusions.

Today there is an Editorial in the Independent saying that a “Hung Parliament” would be fine : http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-hung-parliament-would-not-be-a-disaster-for-britain-1922247.html

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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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For all the fuss, I suspect that the outcome of the General Election will still be a Cameron Government, the situation is rather more like the vote in Northern Ireland yesterday over Policing and Justice. For all the fuss made by the Unionists, interventions by George Bush and so forth, the vote got a substantial majority as it had to.

Sure there are doubts, quite serious ones: For Sinn Fein, they needed Policing and Justice to be “local” to undermine the “British Rule” slur put out by dissident Republicans to justify illegal behaviour. The Unionists understood that but doubted whether it would undermine the ‘die-hard’ elements… but really there was little choice in the matter, for good or ill, it was an inevitable step forward albeit it, into the darkness.

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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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