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Last night the leaders of the parties who want to control our lives had a televised debate.
Did you miss it? I hope not because if it did one thing it was to prove to the world that politics in britain can be more than just a two horse race.
All three leaders had their chance to speak and react to Questions (staged by the media some may say) as well as confront each other on their reactions.
As a contest it was typical of the blues (tory) and reds (labour) to go after each other claiming each had a better view of the world than the other.
The same as they have done for the past 100 odd years 65 of which they have had control of our lives, the third member (lib dem) was intent an more than content with pointing out the similarity between the two major parties and how the same thing happens time after time after time when they change rolls in the houses of parliament.
Those same things are what has in my opinion kept Britain down over the last fifty years with each successive change of government leading to whichever party in control trying to dismantle anything the others had done previously without actually doing anything which would benefit US the people of this country.
Last nights debate was interesting also on the fate of a nuclear deterrent which the U.K has at the moment.The major two both adamant that £100billion was a good investment for our safety.The third option taken by the Lib ems is to scrap the renewal and go for a cheaper option. But perhaps the most interesting thing was how the Conservatives reckoned that China was one of our biggest threats in the future with their nuclear weapons.
Call me naive or stupid if you will but i feel we are more in danger with the proliferation of nuclear weapons being the source of terrorists being able to gain access to them rather than a country like china having them.In my mind a nuclear deterrent is just that a deterrent, no sane leader of any country would risk detonating a nuclear bomb because the reactions are so unpredictable as to what where when there would be retaliation never mind the environmental damage caused to any surrounding countries.
So the biggest threat comes from the terrorist organisations who hold life so cheaply that they would gladly sit on a bomb and detonate it with a hammer to kill the infidels.
Any way that is how I see it you may think different... feel free to leave a comment at the bottom.
Oh yes and I do agree with Nick.
Agreeing with Nick again.
As the dust starts to settle on the first historic public squabble between three party leaders the results make for interesting reading but the reactions are even better.
Gorden brown is philosophical claiming that he is a man of substance rather than style and that he did far better than his followers had expected him to this expectation must have been really low for him to be happy with coming in third when one considers that there were only three in the debate and his actual position was fourth.
Nick Clegg although of course highly pleased with the results has the intelligence to realise it is but a small victory in a very long battle and that he will be the target of both main parties in the weeks to come for his audacious actions of actually persuading the British public that he is a nice bloke.
The third guy of course is Dave and what could have gone wrong?
The expectations for him were absurd in the first place to any other than the closest sycophants most media pundits should naturally be included in the grovel groove as they all fell for the glib sound-bite wannabe and expected him to wipe the floor with his fluent grace and style, unfortunately the longer things went on the more facile and immature he appeared to be with his anecdotal references to being as one with normal people.
His graceful acceptance shortly afterwards about how Nick Clegg had come across better to the public than he did would have had more impact if he had not opened his mouth wide enough to put his foot in it in the following days.
His respect within the voting public took a downturn when he started to preach about how a hung parliament without overall control for either of the big two would be bad for the country bad for politics and bad for the electorate.
I don't know about you but patronising twats who make assumptions on my behalf really piss me off, how dare this man try and tell me and thousands of others that we are wrong to want any one but him and his party running things? Just on that point for a moment whose great idea was it to front a complete election campaign around one supreme beings head; could it be that they realise that the others in his party come across even more smug and stuck up than he does?hard to imagine I know but his chancellor in waiting is actually entitled to sit in the lords should he wish to in future as his family are from titled stock.
Any way I digress this Dickhead Dave reckons that we the public should be told in plain simple terms that what we long for(equality) is not in our best interests and that what we appear to be about to vote for(rational politics) will land us in trouble.
I look forward to the next crop of polls during the coming week when the public have had chance to digest what this condescending ingrate is saying about them and to the reaction when he unwisely tries to target Nick in front of millions for Clegg is no lightweight when it comes to political cut and thrust and will be far better prepared for the backlash than the Tories were for the first sitting, plus of course while Dave tries to go for the throat of the terrier Nick the bulldog Gordon will be waiting to pounce on any mistake he makes because the truth is as Gordon kept saying I agree with Nick.
He agrees with Nick
Like an alien from some distant land Gordon brown has appeared from the woodwork to face his audience,many things can be said of this person which are derogatory and shameful such as he was never elected to run the country or he was responsible for the financial mess we are in or even that he was responsible for the Iraq war.
But I would tend to disagree, Take the Iraq war for instance true he was a member of the cabinet who all voted for it likewise he was a member of parliament who voted unanimously on taking action based on the evidence provided at the time they all thought it was the right thing to do.
Personally I blame the French and dutch along with the Germans and swiss for the second Iraq war for it was they along with the Russians and Chinese who stopped the coalition during the first Iraq war from finishing the war insisting that troops should not cross the border between Iraq and Kuwait. Had they been allowed to do so there would have been no years of turmoil in between which led to the deaths of countless numbers of innocent Iraqi men women and children at the hands of the vile regime of Saddam Hussein.
As for him being an unelected prime minister he was not the first but thankfully with the coming elections about to change politics in this country for good he should be the last, his leadership came about because of the failing system that we the voters have endured and encouraged for the past 100 odd years, I say encouraged because no one has been powerful enough to call for radical reforms until the shit hit the fan during the expenses row and this was brought on mainly due to the credit crunch making journalists more aware of what was going on.
As for the credit crunch it most definitely was not all down to Gordon's fiscal policies as we all reveled in the surge created by the bankers greed to feed ourselves with great wealth and riches if we were able to take advantage and bugger the consequences.
The reason however that I say Gordon is not a moron in fact far from it is his awareness of what the country think of him and how he appears to most if not all of the population when he takes part in debates about things which he is passionate, his self effacing humour about his smiling picked out by many pundits after the great debate was a joy to watch when he was interviewed on television and his cool but persistent method of trying to let people know what he thinks are the fundamentally important things we should care in life about are quite sweet if not a little wide of the mark.
His belief that immigration is under control is one side of his personality which lets him down as every one in the country has a perception that all and every application for entry into this small island is granted with a nod and a back hander, regardless if this is true or not there is a perception within the general community that that is what is happening and it needs to be either discussed at length or pushed onto the back burner by all concerned before it comes back to haunt him. As for the rest of his policies I am yet to make up my mind about who I shall vote for and therefore am gong to read every manifesto and listen to every debate so that even when I have made my decision if it turns out to be the wrong one at least I will have tired to make a difference.
Who knows I might even make the same choice as you.
