What will we wake up to on Friday?

By Mentor2010 at 14:05 on 05/05/10

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When we wake up on Friday Labour will have lost. They will lose badly and it will serve them right. Their failure to admit any responsibility for nearly bankrupting the country, whilst hiding behind a global recession, has been breathtaking. Yesterday the Prime Minister talked of the 50-odd improvements Labour have made in their 13 years. Whilst many of those improvements are to be applauded, the failure to monitor public expenditure has been outrageous, resulting in massive waste. Gordon Brown says that he will do charity work if he is ousted for Downing street. Well, he has certainly had plenty of practice with the tax payers' money during the last 13 years.
So, Gordon will go, perhaps not without a fight, but his position will be untenable. This will leave the Tories with a narrow win. If the Ulster contingent of MPs come on board then Cameron will have a working majority. If necessary, a coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party will be struck.
Let's just hope that tactical voting does not result in a lame Labour Party, led by Harriet Harman, marrying with the Liberal Democrats. I just couldn't face another five years of looking at that Labour front bench.

By Mentor2010 at 14:05 on 05/05/10
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True Labour will probably not be returned to power, but after their disastrous handling of the economy and the colossal waste in the public sector you would think the Tory lead would be well into the 40+% mark. Why have the Tories been unable to make what should be a landslide victory stick, the simple reason is they are no different.

All 3 of the old parties have lied to the electorate, and ask the voter to trust them. The voter has seen through the tissue of lies the leaders keep spouting. They talk of control immigration, yet all know this cannot be done becaus ewe cannot stop EU immigration from which 80% is. They talk about £6.5bn of savings but in reality we need to be making 10 times this amount and none of the tired ol 3 parties are telling the electorate.

The PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) are teetering on the edge, Greece has gone over and the others are set to follow. The EuroZone is about to collapse and with it the EU will go too. The Lib/Lab/Con know this yet they are all happy for £45 million a day of UK tax payers money to go to this failed project every day.

This is deceit and madness at the highest levels and hopefully we will have a hung parliament that will fail in a short time. Hopefully one of the parties will change it's policies to reflect the electorate more closely and come back to win a overwhelming majority. UKIP stands because there is a clear and growing demand from the electorate to have straight talking and honest politics. This election UKIP will again increase its share of the vote and come the next election possibly within 12 months they will be at the top table of politics.

UKIP is here and here to stay!

By Mike_Amor at 17:55 on 05/05/10
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Last year there was a brilliant talk in Glenorchy Church by economist Ann Pettifor. She forecast the economic crash way before anyone else. For anyone wanting to really understand our financial situation I do urge you to visit her web site at tinyurl.com/2wy3pmr It might also inform people who actually believe the extraordinary protestations of UKIP, who if elected and based on their policy, would have the UK bankrupt before their first year in office is out. What is this obsession with Europe all about? Are they still fighting World War 2? Do they want us to become part of the United States (or is that only Tony Blair?). Yes there are things wrong with Europe, but the Euro is not about to collapse right away and I believe we can only fight climate change, international terrorism and crime and keep a thriving export market if we stay in. Regarding immigration, if there had been enough true Brits rushing to take these jobs, there wouldn't have been any vacancies for incomers to fill. Perhaps Mike would be happy to see businesses, hospitals and transport, to name but a few, suffer as a result of this? I do believe however, that a serious and informed discussion about Europe is well overdue, but I doubt if we will ever get this unless we get a PR voting system and rid our selves of politicians' dependancy on the hysterical and biased right wing press.

By GrumpySam at 20:56 on 05/05/10
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Whoever gets in, there will be massive cuts to public services and rises in taxes. All the parties will do their usual point-scoring stuff. It is so childish. It is normal, everyday workers who will pay the price. Like we always do.
The government, of whichever hue, is subortinated by the the economy of which they do not have much control, especially these days as everything is international.
We have wars in foreign lands which should be stopped.
I say, bring the troops home(we don't want anymore deaths for a war built on false premises), fight the cuts that they want to impose on us, and join or support a socialist opposition to the mess that the Labour Party and bossses have left us in. Hey, we are mere consumers of a system that cheats us at the first oppurtunity. What they do is blame us for the crisis, not the scrabble for greed which they partook in. We are the ones who will pay, not them.
Politics is concentrated economics. The main parties are all the same. We need a party which puts people above profit. Simples.

V

By FSOL_ at 20:56 on 06/05/10
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Well, Mentorman, it looks as if your prediction is coming true! When I first read your post I thought that just wouldn't happen, but watching the news this evening I could hardly believe that the Lib Dems and Labour appear to be close to some sort of agreement. It just seems wrong that a party that did worse than they expected in the polls, despite all the hype, should now be in the position of more or less deciding on our next Government. Although Nick Clegg came over well in the debates the more I see him now the more he reminds me of Tony Blair the performer. The Conservatives did better than expected in the final hours of polling, and hold the most seats, but now look as if they could be pushed out. The only possible good thing is that there will have to be such unpleasant cuts in the coming months that it probably won't be long before we have to go back to the polls, by which time perhaps the electorate will have come to realise that voting for a Hung Parliament was not such a good idea.

By Rockwell1 at 01:37 on 11/05/10
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Nick Clegg is probably in a bind with half of his party - certainly those in the West Country would feel uncomfortable joining the Conservatives who they have been fighting during the election. Thus I suspect plan B - let's hedge our bets and look at Labour. But as I said in an earlier blog, if we'd had a proper proportional system we probably wouldn't have been in this mess at all now. Alas, I too blame it on Gordon. If he had done the decent thing and gone to the electorate when he was first elected PM, and said, "You the people deserve to have the choice to back me of sack me " my guess is that he'd still be in power now. I could list many other of his dodgy decisions: Changing tax relief on pensions, selling off our gold at the bottom of the market, supporting the Iraq war, being seduced by the city and the Tory press, being part of Thatcherite New Labour.......as the song says, "It's the rich wot gets the pleasure etc and many of us will soon be feeling the pain." So now he and alas the whole country suffer the consequences. My main worry with the the LibDem/Conservative alliance is that George Osbourne has a degree in History not one in economics. Come back Ken Clarke, (almost) all is forgiven!

By GrumpySam at 17:13 on 11/05/10
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