Thursday, 15 April 2010

Election Blues



So tonight is the first televised debate amongst leaders of the main parties: have you decided who you are voting for yet? I know I’ve already decided that this is the most insipid and uninspired election ever: there is simply no choice available. It’s like choosing between, Diet Coke, Pepsi Max and coke zero, everything is the same flim flam knee-jerk reaction and dumbed down red top following bollocks. Our country now has the largest debt since the end of the Second World War and no national manufacturing output to resolve that. Our reliance on the banking sector and self obsession with the housing market and investment in property has rendered us nationally impotent to repay this debt without massive public sacrifice, yet every party seems to think we can trundle along like before without revealing the true depth of cuts in spending required to balance the books. Yesterday was a prime example of blocks electioneering where the issue of the day became a padded bra bikini sold in Primark highlighting the sexualisation of children? Really, I expected David Cameron to say down with padded bra, Nick Clegg to uplift the middle ground of wonder bras and Gordon Brown to once again support the minors.
What I want is someone to explain exactly how we are going to repay this massive debt without a national domestic product? Where the fuck are we going to get the money and exactly where are the cuts going to be made? Can we not have an adult choice between the main parties on this, someone to sit down and say right, bollocks to the arts, roads and scientific research, or a second choice to say bollocks to the war, national security and education or finally bollocks to the National Health Service and funding for blind people? Yes none of these are particularly appealing however they are all necessary to proceed forward and pay off a debt and I want detailed plans on how this can be achieved.
But what are we getting? Four step manifesto plans of marketing fuckety speak to hardwire fairness into British Society, I don’t give a fuck about fairness at this point, we are at crisis point, shortly money will seriously run out for nearly all public services and the only way to address this is a significant rise in taxation and I want to know that the people in charge are capable of delivering the best deal for us, not the incompetent childish nonsense of band wagon jumping. Yes society currently has a wide range of issue to address within in itself, but fundamentally we can’t do anything if we are effectively bankrupt as a civilisation.
I want to be treated with some intelligence I want to know the detail of plans, the reason we aren’t getting any detail, is they haven’t got a clue, they seriously don’t know what they are doing or how to put it right, they are stuck in a Westminster bubble unable to formulate anything resembling a good idea because on the whole the majority are personal failures who could only get jobs as politicians and they aren’t the doers of society we require to deliver results, we are fucking doomed.

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