Bag's Rants

What is going on with our political parties?

I've said before who really wants to pick up the chalice of power from Blair. Read here.

Successors in the existing Labour party I can understand. Pension of a PM and the kudos, let's face it what can they screw up that isn't already in tatters. They don't really expect to win the next election so they will get what they can before it goes down the pan.

But wait, seems the Tories don't actually want to win the next election either. They have put in a Blair clone. They are following the Labour party line and now talking about introducing green taxes. They are not making any moves to differentiate themselves from Labour at all. In fact they seem hell bent on alienating their own voters in the way that Labour are doing. Why?

The Lib Dems do not look any different either. It's tax this and tax that. Their leaders are covered with the lies about Kennedy's drinking. Sleaze, albeit in a milder form as a weakness rather than illegal acts. Their voters seem to be disillusioned also. Do they not want to win either?

The UKIP, which is now the party DK has signed up for, seems to be very quiet as well. It may be higher up in peoples estimations but is still seem as a one issue candidate. Maybe they can change their image as DK discusses quite elequently for him. At the moment I don't see them in the running but they do look like something to keep your eye on.

The bulk of the UK electorate have shown that we are so stupid that we cannot recognise that what is being said to their faces is so out of touch with what is happening that it does not make any sense to believe these people. Give them a smiley face and snake oil salesman and they lap it all up. No wonder con men make such a good living in this country. Based on this understanding then is it surprising that no one actually wants to be at the wheel when the train hits the stops. We all know who gets the blame when it all goes wrong.

I can see the political broadcasts now. Well, we are going to get rid of 10M useless government jobs. We are going to reduce the number of people on benefits by limiting what they can claim without legitimate reasons. We will limit government control on all fronts. We will leave the EU and we will pull our armies back to defend the UK. That will go down really well.

Where are we going to go from here? How do we turn round a decade of change that has changed so much that we can never undo it all? Hundreds of years of shining democracy, the Magna Carta and leader in human rights and all down the pan in ten short years. Who would have believed it in 1996.

Do I see a win for the BNP? They seem to be the only consistent ones. If they win it will allow this country to explode. In a nice legal legitimate way. Go BNP, racists fascist thugs, Go for it.

posted by Bag @ 1:55 pm