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For this article, I have used a picture of Ed Miliband apparently the “Bookies Favourite” to win the Labour Leadership election but in a sense, I could equally have used a picture of Simon Hughes, Deputy Leader of the LibDems because both are in a sense, actors on a stage awaiting the script and director to arrive.

They are both “all dressed up, with nowhere to go” and likely, both destined for oblivion as they await the “Coalition Experiment” to succeed or fail when both will inevitably, be struck down with“performance self doubts” and completely fluff their lines. But it never-the-less led me once again to consider the sheer folly of the Blair Brown fratricidal dispute whilst in Office, albeit with a slightly different perspective…

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I just loved this Telegraph story: “Twice as many Tescos open 24/7 as Police Stations”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/7957168/Twice-as-many-Tescos-open-247-as-police-stations.html

After some 13 years in power, just what did these two Muppets achieve – sad detritus that both of them are ! But and never-the-less, after increasing the public sector payroll by some 800,000, it sort of indicates what the likely result is for Health Care and Education – increased costs plus reduced outcomes. Policing is the least of it with efficiency further depleted by endless form filling to produce statistics to justify that Labour was “doing the right thing”.

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I am not being cynical but, I do fail to understand all the fuss and faux anger aimed at the Emergency Budget the other day in some sections of the media as well as by deposed politicians such as Harmon, it is a total joke if not a pantomime. The reality of course is for all these people is to maintain the fiction that they are important and their job “matters” in some way – hilarious !

According to them, George Osborne and David Cameron have “duped” their LidDem Coalition partners and have set the Country on the road to a “Tory doctrine inspired Hell” whereas the reality is rather more simple: We have a massive Budget Deficit which includes a “Structural Element” of some £70 billion annually, the choice is to start cutting early or, keep trying to hide under the Duvet in the vague hope that it “might go away”.

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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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The oddest thing about Labour going into Opposition is the complete absence of Gordon Brown, this “Political Colossus” as he was often called has disappeared from from the face of British politics. That he would continue on the backbenches as an MP is rather like a Lottery Winner swearing to carry on with his job as a Dustman, is likely a load of bullshit as well as not terribly practical. It reminds me of a description of “Fame”: Stick your hand in a bucket of water, swish it all around and then remove your hand. Once the water has settled again, no one knows that your hand was even there.

It was amusing to see Harriet Harmon as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, standing in in the debate on the Queen’s Speech. Obviously the Labour Party is still in some disarray following its defeat and a prolonged Leadership Contest which will drag on for 4 months, just won’t help too much either. Also set against the background of David Cameron positively glowing and growing in the role of Prime Minister.

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The Independent in its infinite wisdom has decided to change the way it deals with readers comments on articles, a move designed to increase boredom and decrease any valid ‘debate’. I have lived through this before; It was contributing to the Telegraph that first led me to set up this blog back in November 2007 but they too decided to change their “readers comments” set-up and turn the whole thing to boring dross and now too the ‘Indy’ follows – Oh Well…there you go.

But the reason that I mention this is simply that of only a couple of regular Independent columnists worth reading, John Rentoul is one and the starting point for this particular blog was an entry he made on the ‘old system’ so whereas I would normally just give you a web link, as this may disappear into the ether, I have had to quote the key passages which I dislike because it is other people’s copyright:-

John Rentoul: The Hung Parliament Party – http://johnrentoul.independentminds.livejournal.com/408639.html

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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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With Gordon Brown’s departure from Downing Street yesterday and his also standing down as Labour Leader with immediate effect, there will be a Labour leadership contest in the fairly immediate future and this raises some interesting forward projections.

Donald Macintyre wrote an article in the Independent on this but frankly, I don’t think that he has got the right angle on it. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/donald-macintyre/donald-macintyre-labours-leadership-needs-the-stamp-of-a-genuinely-new-era-1971404.html

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The Independent apparently has an “Eeyore” writing Editorials for them and today in greeting the Conservative and Liberal Democratic Coalition Government, it was something like a Funeral dirge

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-an-unlikely-partnership-that-could-mark-the-start-of-a-treacherous-era-1971193.html

I don’t know who writes these Editorials but whoever it is, really ought to grow up rather than writing this childish, begrudging type of stuff, it is truly pathetic. It would seem that the LibDems having a foothold in Government is fine but not that it is with the Conservatives, total nuts

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So the morning after the night before and here we are with a Hung Parliament. My personal wish was for a Cameron Government with a working majority as best for the UK as a whole but sadly not to be or…is it sad ? I have written before that a large part of the British Public have demonstrated quite infantile behaviour in not wishing to face up to the reality of our current economic situation in the UK and therefore the remedies required to correct it.

It may well be that this election result may well provide the necessary impetus to bring both reality and acceptance to the public at large…

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