I've been very impressed by Mr Clegg in the TV debates. Not entirely surprising, he's 'new', fresh and TV friendly. More though, I've liked his apparent honesty, clarity and concision, he has a succinctness and I must admit to being a little seduced by the atheist tag. It suggests a rationality not available to the other candidates. For the first time I actually feel like the Libdems look, to me at least, like a sensible option and I think they may have my vote at some point in the future. My problem with LibDem taking the helm at the moment is that we have not really seen anything of Nick Clegg and his team 'in action'. I mean…
You don't take a brand new sailor, however promising, and make him captain of the ship! You'd want to have him on the bridge, try him out a bit. Let him take the command for the first time in relatively calm waters. And you certainly don't want to substitute that 'novice' for the current experienced ship's captain, at a time when the ship has sailed into a massive unavoidable storm, in which the ship is still being tossed. And when, let's face it, although some leaks have sprung, the captain has kept it afloat. No, I reckon you let the experienced captain who already has the wheel ride it out.
So, what we need to do is vote Labour back in.
Hang on, hang on. Give me a minute here. I think that I have to agree with Gordon's parting words from the last election debate. We cannot currently risk the other two parties. Yeah, yeah I know, we all want to slap Gordon's legs for being a bit bombastic, stiff and people phobic, and for not regulating the banks, but hey, NOBODY else would have regulated them either.
The crash wasn't Labour's fault and, to be fair, wasn't it Gordon who donned his Superman underpants and whizzed around the globe, convincing Leaders to cut interest rates?
There are I’m sure millions of us around the world, sitting in the homes we only still own because Gordon saved the world. Or, am I wrong?
If Interest rates hadn't been cut we'd have all, globally, been royally screwed - knee deep in ragged, hungry jobless like the 1930's. And Nazi Germany grew up out of that disaster!
Would the Tories have made that trip? Would they have thought of it? Their heart is made of bankers and toffs - those who make money through the buying and selling of the exactly the sort of financial product, the toxic debt funds, which caused the crash in the first place. The Conservatives, for me are a third, least favourable, option. Handing over the wheel to them would be like collectively shouting 'full steam ahead to Toffs Paradise island', and 'Let's not worry about the crew!' You know what they're like!
We all want to change things from the crap they have been but I think we need stability more than grand ideas and gestures at the moment. I don't care if Gordon can't smile to save his life, he's not supposed to be a supermodel and I'm not sure I'm bothered that he get's a bit cross, especially as it seems to be mostly at himself, we currently need Gordon's fiscal brain so he can continue to steer the ship but we do need to deliver the aforementioned leg-slap to send him the clear message that, "It's been quite crap out here for us Britons." If we could arrange to give him only a single seat majority that would be bang on.
There is one way though, in which we could make a change and stay the same! We can safely change the opposition. While I do think it maybe too soon, just yet, to traipse off down Nick Clegg’s tempting Yellow Brick road, it may be a win-win for the country to give Nick Clegg the opposition's chair with a clear mandate; an obvious message of, "We're sorry, we can't take the chance at the moment but we sincerely like your shit, crack at it a bit. Maybe next time..." We just haven't seen him in action enough. Let him sit across the chamber in opposition. Let's hear Vince square up to Alistair. Let's have a proper debate about proportional representation. Let's see how the LibDems perform before we hand 'em the keys to the kingdom.
Finally, sorry I bashed on a bit, I know there are more than three parties, but really, who gives a flying one about them at the moment! This election is ALL about staying afloat, carrying out running repairs and damage limitation in the continuing fiscal tempest.
For right now we need Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, Nick Clegg as Leader of Opposition and David Cameron, somewhere in the region of who cares.
Ideally for me, this...
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If you live in a constituency where the battle is between Labour and Conservative...
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You don't take a brand new sailor, however promising, and make him captain of the ship! You'd want to have him on the bridge, try him out a bit. Let him take the command for the first time in relatively calm waters. And you certainly don't want to substitute that 'novice' for the current experienced ship's captain, at a time when the ship has sailed into a massive unavoidable storm, in which the ship is still being tossed. And when, let's face it, although some leaks have sprung, the captain has kept it afloat. No, I reckon you let the experienced captain who already has the wheel ride it out.
So, what we need to do is vote Labour back in.
Hang on, hang on. Give me a minute here. I think that I have to agree with Gordon's parting words from the last election debate. We cannot currently risk the other two parties. Yeah, yeah I know, we all want to slap Gordon's legs for being a bit bombastic, stiff and people phobic, and for not regulating the banks, but hey, NOBODY else would have regulated them either.
The crash wasn't Labour's fault and, to be fair, wasn't it Gordon who donned his Superman underpants and whizzed around the globe, convincing Leaders to cut interest rates?
There are I’m sure millions of us around the world, sitting in the homes we only still own because Gordon saved the world. Or, am I wrong?
If Interest rates hadn't been cut we'd have all, globally, been royally screwed - knee deep in ragged, hungry jobless like the 1930's. And Nazi Germany grew up out of that disaster!
Would the Tories have made that trip? Would they have thought of it? Their heart is made of bankers and toffs - those who make money through the buying and selling of the exactly the sort of financial product, the toxic debt funds, which caused the crash in the first place. The Conservatives, for me are a third, least favourable, option. Handing over the wheel to them would be like collectively shouting 'full steam ahead to Toffs Paradise island', and 'Let's not worry about the crew!' You know what they're like!
We all want to change things from the crap they have been but I think we need stability more than grand ideas and gestures at the moment. I don't care if Gordon can't smile to save his life, he's not supposed to be a supermodel and I'm not sure I'm bothered that he get's a bit cross, especially as it seems to be mostly at himself, we currently need Gordon's fiscal brain so he can continue to steer the ship but we do need to deliver the aforementioned leg-slap to send him the clear message that, "It's been quite crap out here for us Britons." If we could arrange to give him only a single seat majority that would be bang on.
There is one way though, in which we could make a change and stay the same! We can safely change the opposition. While I do think it maybe too soon, just yet, to traipse off down Nick Clegg’s tempting Yellow Brick road, it may be a win-win for the country to give Nick Clegg the opposition's chair with a clear mandate; an obvious message of, "We're sorry, we can't take the chance at the moment but we sincerely like your shit, crack at it a bit. Maybe next time..." We just haven't seen him in action enough. Let him sit across the chamber in opposition. Let's hear Vince square up to Alistair. Let's have a proper debate about proportional representation. Let's see how the LibDems perform before we hand 'em the keys to the kingdom.
Finally, sorry I bashed on a bit, I know there are more than three parties, but really, who gives a flying one about them at the moment! This election is ALL about staying afloat, carrying out running repairs and damage limitation in the continuing fiscal tempest.
For right now we need Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, Nick Clegg as Leader of Opposition and David Cameron, somewhere in the region of who cares.
Ideally for me, this...
BBC News - Election seat calculator
If you live in a constituency where the battle is between Labour and Conservative...
Vote Labour
If you live in a constituency where the battle is between LibDem and Conservative...Vote LibDem
If you live in a constituency where the battle is any body's guess...Vote with your heart.
To all of us, best of luck for the next five years - whoever get's the hot seat, we are all going to need it!PEACE
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