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It’s a good read, I promise.
Verity drew a picture of a robot and I kept it for myself because I think it is brilliant! I am going to get it framed and might even use it for an album sleeve one day, such is its greatness. Not bad for someone who’s just passed two-and-a-half years old.
Well I can see why all the rock ‘n’ rollers are pissed at Spotify for this month I’ve had over 50 songs played on their service which earnt me 3 cents. Again, it is hard to complain when I know that 50 of my songs have had more exposure than I could ever imagined.
And so it came to pass that the golden age has ended, thirteen years of glorious Labour government is over. All good things come to an end (except the common herpes virus which comes back for more, and more, and more) and if you weren’t moved by Gordon Brown’s farewell speech outside the door of Number 10, then your heart is stone.
I have a lot of time for El Gordo, but I know he wasn’t everyone’s cup of rosie. I do believe his handling of our banking system and the recent economic meltdown will be remembered as a true mark of his greatness. But what you got tonight was a sense of the real Gordon Brown, his speech in Downing Street combined with his walk away with his wife and children was very moving. I liked the way he delivered a back-handed eff-you with his “being Prime Minister was the world’s second greatest job – the first is being a husband and father”. I actually punched the air when he said that.
Also his speech to the Labour Party was also a thing of greatness where he thanked everyone and shouldered the blame. That was the mark of a real man. I don’t think you’ll see the likes of him for a long time and in the coming months years, people will look back and re-evaluate his short term and his time with Blair.
But what now? Our democracy is broken. Somehow we’ve got a coalition government in which the third placed runner gets to touch the prize. If this was a horse race, there would be uproar. If this was the Olympics and the bronze-placed winner got to wear the Gold with the winner, it would turn the sport in a laughing stock.
Seeing Cameron entering Downing Street, I saw someone completely out-of-his-depth. The look of fear was palpable and this is someone who’s political career hasn’t even hit the decade. And now he is in control. Complete control. With Corporal Clegg as his unlikely second-in-command. This is the first time in my life that I have been genuinely frightened of the incoming government. A Conservative Prime Minister and a Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister? Am I the only person in the world who thinks this is madness?
Why frightnened? Well because this is a coalition built on compromise and a lust for power. At least if the Conservatives got their majority, Labour would naturally assume its place as opposition. Now, the Labour Party has to fight two political opponents at once. Is that a fair fight? Two on one? Nah, that’s a bar-room brawl.
I don’t particularly want our political system to be brought down to the squabbling and corruption of the coalitions you see in other European countries. I want a left and a right. I want two parties. A government and an opposition. This just muddies the waters and will lead to a political system that will bogged down with decisions being hijacked by Clegg waving his mandate over Cameron’s head.
“Remember our agreement,” he would chide and Cameron would fall into place in fear of losing his grip. Is that what you voted for? I know I didn’t. Our politicians should be scared of us – the electorate to take power away from them, not their deputies or their uneasy bedfellows.
But I do hope this actually works out because if it turns out how I think it is going to turn out, then there will be more unemployment, higher prices and more people losing their homes. And as for pulling our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan – you can’t be serious. There are contracts to be signed to equip our boys and those Tories and fingers in pies, my friend.
So let’s cross our fingers and hope that this madness will turn out OK. I love being right, but this is one those times I really want to be proved wrong.
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” asked John Lydon on his last night with the Sex Pistols in January 1978.
That’s very much how all you Liberal Democrat voters should be feeling this very morning. For if one thing has been proved in the 2010 election is that the Liberal Democrat party is a spent force and actually derails the democratic process. I would have rather had the Conservative party won by a fair majority than have it eaten into by this wishy-washy party who will climb into bed with the party with the most votes rather than act on their principals, instead of submitting to their lust for getting their hand on the greasy rudder of Parliamentary power. So as I was saying to myself yesterday, a vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for the Conservative party.
I bet all you good-natured, middle-of-the-road, undecided, uncommitted, flip-flopping, Liberal Democrats are feeling a bit silly this morning, aren’t you? Where did your swing of votes go? The result proves that a three party political system doesn’t work and for democracy to be properly served a return to two-party politics is needed.
Forget proportional representation, for PR is only mooted by the Liberal Democrats because it serves only them – the also-ran, because the Labour voter will vote Lib-Dem as their second choice and the Conservative will also do the same – because neither will vote for the opposition as their second choice. So the Liberal Democrats need to go.
The Liberal Democrats is a party born out of those who sell out their principals to the highest bidder – I cite David Steel as a prime example of that – it is a party that threw out the ideology of the old Liberal Party, instead infecting them with the M.O.R. middle class Social Democratic Party ethos (which basically formed from those refugees from the political weasels who burnt their bridges with both Labour and Conservative Party). It is a political stain that blows in the wind, that represents nothing, that stands for no-one. If you voted Liberal Democrat, you are probably the same kind of person who when asked if they would like a tea or coffee usually replies: “I’ll have what you’re having? I don’t want to put you to any trouble.”
Now obviously, I am a Labour voter. I admit that. But despite this, I would have preferred a stable Conservative win that this uncertainty these Liberal Democrats have thrust upon us. Without that party, there would have been a decisive victory for the Conservatives and so our political system is preserved.
So what now? At this moment, Clegg wants to desperately unzip the fly of Cameron and drop to his knees, but it doesn’t look as if that kind of coalition will happen. If that’s the case, then my respect for Cameron increases, the same can be said if El Gordo holds fast and doesn’t waver.
At this moment, it would be better if the two main parties worked together until a second election is called, especially for those votes who were denied their chance to exercise their electoral right due to potential mismanagement at the voting stations around the country. I’d never in my life seen people been turned away from a vote – it was almost as if we were living in a third world country. A true disgrace.
But in a way, I got what I wanted: I awoke to a Labour Government again! I’m secretly hoping that El Gordo claims squatter’s rights and they have a fight to remove him from Number 10. But at least we all know that Nick Clegg will sell you out at the first opportunity.
So you class traitors who switched your vote to the Liberal Democrats and effectively wasted it: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”