God help us.
There are some dark times ahead
for this country. The army of darkness has pulled off an unlikely victory and
now they’re really going to have at us lowly plebs. I’m genuinely frightened.
So how the fuck did it all go
wrong? Where’s the hung Parliament and the progressive coalition we thought we
were going to get? How the fuck did the pollsters get it so wrong and how the
fuck did David Cameron and his posh bastards not only get to stay in power, but
also to win a majority?
Let’s start with the easy one
first: Little Nicky Clegg and his Lib Dems. They’re saying that they went into
that coalition with the Tory bully boys because it was best for this country.
Bullshit. They went into that coalition because they wanted a taste of power;
they wanted to feel relevant; and they were prepared to betray everyone who
trusted them and to sell all their values like a cheap whore to do it.
Yesterday they paid the price. David Cameron fucked them all ways till Sunday.
Yesterday was the money for a taxi left on the bedside table.
Ed Milliband: Fucking hell; where
do I start? First – his campaign wasn’t quite as bad as everybody expected.
Most of us thought he was going to come across as an awkward geek; clumsy in
word and deed. Apart from his little stumble on Question Time he proved us
wrong. He actually made a pretty good fist of the campaign; coming across as
confident, passionate, and maybe – and I emphasise maybe – a viable alternative to the evil henchmen of the Tory
party. There really wasn’t a lot wrong with how he said it; the problem was
what he said.
Going back briefly to that
Question Time appearance, he drove a stake through the heart of his campaign
when he said Labour hadn’t overspent when they were last in power. Frankly,
that was a fucking stupid thing to say. Of course they overspent. Gordon Brown
was so desperate to be considered worthy of the office of Prime Minister that
he would have spent his kids’ pocket money if he thought it would help. As it
was, he sold off our gold reserves as if from the boot of his car. Of course
they overspent.
Then there was the EU referendum.
That was the one that really killed off his chances of becoming Prime Minister.
The people of this country want a referendum, and who is he to say they can’t
have one? The idea of voting for a candidate is that you’re voting for someone
who’ll do what you want. Why would you vote for somebody who’s definitely not
going to carry out your wishes?
The British people don’t want to
be part of some European Federation. When they voted in the 1972 referendum
they were voting to join the common
market, not a European super-state. But like every good idea – put it in
the hands of the politicians and they’ll always screw it up. It’s just about
the only thing you can be sure of with them. Immigration is another one:
Fantastic idea – it has enriched this country beyond measure. But, again, the
politicians got hold of it and messed it up. They had an open-door policy, but
they didn’t bother to build up the country’s infrastructure to cope with the
influx. So now, rather than seeing foreign nationals as a valuable addition to
our culture, many regard them with resentment, and even open hostility, because
they feel the country can’t cope.
Which brings me neatly onto UKIP:
To quote Bruce Forsythe – didn’t they do
well? But that was to be expected, because they were able to capitalise on
a growing nationalist sentiment in this country and portray themselves as the
party that was listening to the fears of the British public on immigration. And
if we had a fairer voting system, they would be a formidable force in
Parliament.
I watched the BBC coverage until
six this morning, and the thing that annoyed me was that they never mentioned –
even in passing – the massive swing to UKIP in the context of people voting
against David Cameron. It’s like UKIP are the Lord Voldemort of British
politics, and we dare not speak their name in case people think we’re racist.
A massive amount of people voted
against David Cameron yesterday. More than 3 million people saw UKIP as the
party they wanted to represent them in the House of Commons. How many of those
people would have voted Labour if UKIP hadn’t been standing? I would argue that
the political map would be a hell of a lot different today, and we might be
looking at a new Prime Minister.
The British people don’t want David Cameron in
charge of this country. They made that very clear yesterday. Unfortunately, they
also made clear that they weren’t too keen on Ed Milliband either. What a
tragedy that by voting the way they did, they got the very thing they were
voting against.
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