It has been a while since I put finger to keyboard. Well actually that is a lie, I put fingers to keyboard quite a lot most days of the week, so what I meant was all about context. Writing this blog is a little like shouting into the wind; it can be cathartic but in the end, no-one pays attention and so it is easy to give up.
We are of course heading towards a general election and all the horses are lined up, displaying their promises and everyone knows that all is just a façade and that very little will change once all the hoo ha is over and done with. The public has little by way of choice, the nasty party has been in charge for five years and has presided over a relentless attack on this who can least defend themselves, whilst allowing their financial backers to fill their bank accounts. Despite efforts by their media friends, many people now see this as a bad thing and are edging away from the Tories but it is a sign of the times that they are drifting even further to the right and are backing the even nastier UKIP.
UKIP is fundamentally an evolved BNP which in turn evolved from the skinhead movement if the seventies and eighties, and yet they are becoming a significant player in this most disturbing lead up to the May election.
The Liberal Democrats have shown their true colours or absence of colours and might well be heading for deserved extinction. We can only hope that will be the case.
Labour support is gaining a little ground but they are dependent on the support of other minor parties, who, if Labour should defeat Cameron and his old Etonians, will hold the balance of power. It is a possibility that our next government will be steered from the back seat by the militant Scots or Irish.
The Greens have no real credibility, and like most small parties will promise everything, knowing that they will not have to deliver, and they like all of the other unelectables simply divide the votes and make it more likely that there will be no majority government.
So who do we vote for? I really do not have a clue and yet I will exercise my democratic right, if I remember to, and put my cross somewhere. I live in an area where a goat in a blue ribbon would be elected and so my vote will be as meaningless as so many millions will be. People like Russell Brand urge others not to vote, but where does that leave us? The extremists will always vote and but opting out we simply and passively let them have their way.
The system as it stands is not working and it has to be time for some real and radical changes in the way that we elect a government. Party politics is so divisive and maybe a thing of the past. Let us dispense with it and elect independent candidates on the basis of their abilities rather than their political colours.
We are of course heading towards a general election and all the horses are lined up, displaying their promises and everyone knows that all is just a façade and that very little will change once all the hoo ha is over and done with. The public has little by way of choice, the nasty party has been in charge for five years and has presided over a relentless attack on this who can least defend themselves, whilst allowing their financial backers to fill their bank accounts. Despite efforts by their media friends, many people now see this as a bad thing and are edging away from the Tories but it is a sign of the times that they are drifting even further to the right and are backing the even nastier UKIP.
UKIP is fundamentally an evolved BNP which in turn evolved from the skinhead movement if the seventies and eighties, and yet they are becoming a significant player in this most disturbing lead up to the May election.
The Liberal Democrats have shown their true colours or absence of colours and might well be heading for deserved extinction. We can only hope that will be the case.
Labour support is gaining a little ground but they are dependent on the support of other minor parties, who, if Labour should defeat Cameron and his old Etonians, will hold the balance of power. It is a possibility that our next government will be steered from the back seat by the militant Scots or Irish.
The Greens have no real credibility, and like most small parties will promise everything, knowing that they will not have to deliver, and they like all of the other unelectables simply divide the votes and make it more likely that there will be no majority government.
So who do we vote for? I really do not have a clue and yet I will exercise my democratic right, if I remember to, and put my cross somewhere. I live in an area where a goat in a blue ribbon would be elected and so my vote will be as meaningless as so many millions will be. People like Russell Brand urge others not to vote, but where does that leave us? The extremists will always vote and but opting out we simply and passively let them have their way.
The system as it stands is not working and it has to be time for some real and radical changes in the way that we elect a government. Party politics is so divisive and maybe a thing of the past. Let us dispense with it and elect independent candidates on the basis of their abilities rather than their political colours.
