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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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The Independent in their infinite wisdom is trying hard to make some significant mileage out of the Lord Ashcroft and his domicile/tax status none of which I find remotely interesting or relevant however to Labour and the “Cleggies”, they are very frightened of Ashcroft.

The reason because he has been carefully targeting over 100 key marginal seats which could prove crucial if the current national polls are anything near correct come polling day. In fact what Ashcroft is doing is exactly what the LibDems should have been doing for these past two years in order to displace the Labour Party as the alternative party to the Conservatives.

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To my mind, the most disturbing feature of the MPs “Expenses Scandal” has been the obsequious behaviour of the Media in being unprepared to tackle the real issues involved head on, like politicians themselves, they appear too scared of the “public outrage”.

This public outrage I suspect, has as much to do with with the pomposity of the Labour Government and in particular one Gordon Brown who it is now clear, made a total horlicks of the UK economy whilst Chancellor whilst boasting that he had abolished Boom and Bust. In addition, this Parliament has effectively been dead since sometime during 2008, there should have been a 2009 election and political clear out of Westminster then.

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We all like a clearly defined villain, someone we can all hate without fear of contradiction that we as individuals have made a mistake. There have been two stories in the past year running in the UK that have both these elements: MP’s Expenses and Banker’s Bonuses.

In both cases I believe that the “Perceived Wisdom”is totally wrong, worse a “cover up” and President Obama’s threats to limit American Banks in both size and scope, probably foolish and his message is more ‘politically populist’ than the sound of common sense. The reality behind both of these stories is something called complacency…

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Although obviously a Labour supporter, a regular contributor to the Independent is John Rentoul who often writes very interesting articles that concentrate on trying to analyse the issues rather than trotting out left wing propaganda, he is always worth reading.

His article in Sunday’s edition is very well worth a read: “How many years out in the cold?” Sub heading; “Labour is likely to lose the general election. Its main concern now is damage limitation “ http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-how-many-years-out-in-the-cold-1870275.html

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Someone called Liz Hoggard wrote an article extolling the benefits of legally enforceable, all women lists to become MPs. In my opinion, this woman is a total smug metropolitan media person with hardly a clue on her very best day.

This woman has neither any pride nor any shame and is typical of the NIMBY, chattering classes, generation she belongs to, vacuous in both mind and spirit, I’m aware that the Indy has financial problems but allowing a daft cow like this to write is surely not the “answer to their prayers” plus the above picture is likely 15 years out of date too.

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Nicholas Lezard writing in the Independent today: “Forgive Bercow his past indiscretions” :http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/nicholas-lezard-forgive-bercow-his-past-indiscretions-1835530.html points the finger at disgruntled Tories who think that he is now a “bit of a Lefty”.

Although as general principle, I don’t think that he is wrong in terms of people in public life all too often being ‘attacked’ for the wrong thing by the Media, in terms of his article and Speaker Bercow, I think that he rather misunderstands or misrepresents the position somewhat.

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Whilst “knocking” the Conservatives, Labour and LibDems and damning all politicians as total fools is understandable in some ways, is not the answer although it does highlight the real problem which is a lack of commercial enterprise in Britain.

Since when did becoming Prime Minister or being “In the Government” represent the apex of British Society ? Oh certainly in the minds of all politicians throughout the ages and especially as long before today, they pocketed back handers of one sort or another, they were the most important in the land but historically very few were. All political parties represent and always did, a specific sectional interest in society whether of property, trade or labour (working people).

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