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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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Over recent months and likely to continue over the next year or so there is lots of Media coverage concerning the “Recovery” and or the threat of a “Double Dip” Recession. Now whilst I am no economist, it does rather strike me that people are looking down the wrong end of the telescope on this one, my gut feeling is that the whole “system” and our approach to it needs to change radically and that is what this and a following essay is about but first a couple of samples from the Press:

Real Unemployment: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7257667/Eight-million-people-economically-inactive.html

The Double Dip: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-recovery-was-never-going-to-be-easy-1908331.html

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A 70 year old idiot called Ray Gosling went on a regional chat show and claimed that he had killed a former lover suffering from Aids by smothering him with a pillow. The Independent wrote an Editorial questioning all this: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-misguided-intervention-1902769.html

Gosling’s claim (if true), was to say the least, totally absurd and if he is campaigning for a “Right to Die”, totally counter productive to the “cause”. This man is no martyr, just another vain attention seeking old gay fart who can’t get a shag and because being GAY is all now ‘de rigeur in the Media’ let his gob runaway with him without regard to the potential audience. It is highly likely that because of idiots like him, the ‘acceptance’ of Gay People generally by the public at large will be put back somewhat rather than’advanced’, silly old Queer !

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The former Europe Minister Denis MacShane wrote an article on the EU intended to show that the EU is wonderful and the “Beastly Tories” will detach us from it which given the difficulties Greece is currently in, hardly seems a sensible approach to reality.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/denis-macshane-shame-on-those-now-sneering-at-the-european-project-1900566.html

However as an election has to take place in months, the Labour Party is dragging “any old has been” off the back benches to write “wicked Tory” articles on any and every topic they can, what a sad sack of shit this Labour Government has become.

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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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The loss yesterday of the US Senate Seat held by Edward Kennedy for almost 50 years to the Republican Scott Brown is seen as a blow to the Obama Presidency on his first anniversary of becoming President. This can be seen as a great snub to his plans for Health Care Reform and so on but in a sense, this is an inevitable step along the way.

Rather like the marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer all those years ago, the “expectations” of an Obama Presidency – “Yes We Can.” far exceeded any reality on delivery in a recession. In this though lies some serious food for thought for David Cameron and his Team as they prepare for Government…

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There was an interesting article in today’s Independent by a chap called James Fishkin who quite amusingly calls himself “James S Fishkin” presumably to try and overcome a rather odd surname by adding some kind of gravitas to it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-s-fishkin-the-58-ideas-that-could-hold-the-key-to-bringing-the-election-alive-1861198.html

Yes I am being disparaging because I went and looked at the web site of this outfit and was less than impressed because it misses the fundamentals of reform and political progress but judge for yourself my reasoning will follow. http://www.power2010.org.uk/

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I’m always up for a laugh but was astounded with the joint call by the deplorable Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt both of whom are “standing down at the next election”, for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown as the Leader of the Labour Party – to clear the air ! One wonders who is pulling their strings on this one, Harmon, Darling ?

What a hoot ! If anybody has the slightest doubt about the result of the next election in that Gordon Brown and Labour will be thrown out of Office and David Cameron will be the next Prime Minister with a good working majority, there goes the proof. It might have been a good idea a year ago but now, it can only be described as a death wish, perhaps they should “re-brand” as the Lemming Party.

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Some days ago we learned that the three main political parties – Conservatives, Labour, LibDems, have agreed to hold TV Debates during the run up to the General Election which of course has immediately led to protest from the various Celtic Nationalist Parties as well as UKIP and presumably, the BNP.

The real question though is whether it adds anything to British Politics or is it just something that excites the ‘Media People’ only. I must be honest and say that my viewpoint starts with a healthy dose of total scepticism. I am sure the first one will be watched by many though even then, only the committed and/or angry and the following ones by very few.

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In today’s Independent, Hamish McRae wrote a truly interesting article on the the emergency budget introduced by the Irish Republic which were announced on the same day as the disgraceful PBR statement given by Alistair Darling to the Commons last week.

It is well worth reading but to give a flavour, the following quote from it: “But the biggest lesson surely is that if a country has to impose austerity, it should do so swiftly.” http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-we-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-ireland-1841891.html

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