Life On The Road

Now tell me, seriously, when was the last time you heard a politician state that in public? Shocked? I nearly paid my licence fee! As to whether the dynamic duo of Clegg and Cameron will live up to that promise is anybody's guess, but I'm willing to bet at this stage that the conjoined twins will last 4 months before a greatly-reformed Nu Labour will come back to challenge them. When that happens you can bet that there will be casualties aplenty, and of course, the Country that politicians are conspicuously scrambling to "support" will suffer again. Don't be under any illusion that our new masters will be any different from the old team under the skin!

I suspect not, and therefore I'd conjecture that this Coalition would closely resemble a Patsy Kensit marriage the last one of which has ironically failed because "she's really insecure about what Jeremy does when he's out DJing at clubs every night.." - well could Dave trust Nick, and vice-versa?

What the end result will be today therefore is a hasty short-term marriage, notorious for internal disagreements and punctuated with bouts of very public passion. The losers of course will be the country and the electorate, but sadly in the UK this has come to be the norm rather than the exception and we can only hope that this will be replaced by a marriage, not only stable, but long term too. One can hope ...

Anyway, there's a while to wait before September, but if it turns out that I was right, remember you read it here first ;-)

If he goes with the younger, less-experienced Cameron, he has the enormous carrot of electoral reform, but does he really think that he'll have a role once the LibDems are subsumed into the Tory party, and the shadows lurking in the background are still there but not quite as noticeable as with Labour.

Whatever happens, Clegg will need to make his mind up very carefully: not only as regards his personal survival but he also needs to bear in mind the implications for the country. We may end up with just two political parties and a handful of eccentrics. Lets see what the weekend brings...

"A message from Simon Bennett due to the volume of phone calls and emails I am receiving: This website and domain are no longer in my control. I have not sabotaged it. The domain name has been pointing to the new BNP server since last night (5th May) which is completely out of my hands. If your Emails are affected, again this is completely out of my hands and control. If you are reading this message it is because they have set up their server incorrectly and this needs to be resolved by the new webmaster. It is important to note that I have been working hard to negotiate a seamless switchover of the website, but for reasons unknown to me the leadership have chosen to force the domain from me, steal my work, data and systems and go it alone rather than paying for it. I will continue to work hard to try and resolve the situation quickly, professionally and amicably. This is in the hands of Nick Griffin and Jim Dowson, not me. It should also be noted that they have decided to put a personal grudge against me before the interests of the party and its members. This was not a fight of my choosing".

Then, by the time I'd looked up various WHOIS settings and gone back to the page for another look, another, new page had appeared, that started with:

"A message from BNP Leader Nick Griffin

Fellow British Patriot,

Welcome to the temporary website of the British National Party. The BNP is a patriotic, democratic alternative to the old parties that have wrecked our great country...".

Very odd! What's going on at the BNP, and why now in the middle of a general election?

As to whom i've voted for, well, all i'll say is that it isn't Gordon, Dave nor Nick :-) As to whether my vote will make a difference I don't know, but i've remained true to my original statement and have no regrets. There will be more later!

Tomorrow therefore will be a depressing day, and we'll attempt to "do the right thing", but isn't it sad that we have to choose the least poor (quality) candidate rather than the best man for the job?

So it wasn't until the new-age media finally admitted that our parliamentary hopefuls could be finally shown to their electorate, AKA the Great Unwashed, that we really got see what was what, who was who and what they really stood for. Even with pre-chosen questions from a muted and emasculated audience, these 3 buffoons managed to reveal their true selves and unfailingly disappoint in the process; something that will no doubt continue once one of them has been elected by a confused, and almost certainly desperate electorate.

It wasn't just the TV debates though - its been the politicians' use of the new-new media, such as Twitter, and YouTube in Labour's case. They've embraced the new technology like a heroin addict on benefits day and proceeded to show themselves as the vengeful, indiscrete liars that we always suspected them to be. How many of them have spouted tides of vitriol at the "opposition" or even the suckers they want to vote for them? Or in the case of Kerry McCarthy, blabbing about postal vote returns even before the official day?? Anyway, the police are now investigating, but the damage is already done. When people don't understand the technology they can get hurt really quickly.

So who am I going to vote for? Well, I'm not voting Labour, nor Conservative, nor the flip-flopping LibDems, despite all the personally-addressed, expensively produced electioneering bumph that's plopped through the letterbox recently. Despite my local candidates apparently worthy efforts over the past year, their leaders JUST AREN'T UP TO THE JOB AND I DON'T TRUST THEM. GOT THAT?

As to who I will vote for, that's my business, but you can bet that whichever muppet gets into power on May 6th/7th it won't be one that I've voted for.

What sort of opinion do Brown, Cameron and Clegg actually have of the people that would put them in power? Seriously? Well, for starters, they must think we're sheeple - but we're not. According to the increasingly haggard Clegg, we're "King Makers" - hohoho.. what utter crap Nick, and please pull the other one!

Oh, and Nick.. you gave your most honest interview ever yesterday with Jon Snow yesterday - he crucified you and exposed you for being the weasel you really are. Give it up now and leave the other two to fight it out.

No, this time we're better informed than we ever were, and you are going to suffer as a result of that knowledge. No, you really are, and if we are given the power to sack useless or corrupt MPs then by god we will: judging by the performances we've seen so far I'd say that a lot of the scum putting themselves forward for election need not bother - we're going to sack you as soon as we can.

You have been warned.