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Election, reflection, defecation

5/26/2017

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With parliament dissolved and electioneering in full swing, the news is full of stuff about the parties and their politics. Most of it, frankly, a bit whiffy.

My view is that May pulled a blinder in calling a snap election. With the Labour Party in disarray, the Lib Dems in the wilderness and UKIP consigned to history, the likelihood of her being elected (as opposed to just being appointed), and with a hefty majority too, looked certain. The local election results rather reinforced that expectation.

But May was perhaps a bit too blasé when she decided she could therefore do what she liked in terms of addressing social care provision. The public backlash against her policy did much to bolster Labour’s poll standings and gave May a reality check.

​Then the Labour party suddenly announced its plan to scrap university tuition fees and all of a sudden, I found myself hoping that the Labour Party could get its shit together after all. Labour has a spend, spend, spend approach…and why not because it doesn’t really expect to win. But I looked at Corbyn’s policies and for a variety of other things, I find myself thinking he might be have a point too. A low key epiphany-of-sorts for me.

With regards to tuition fees, Nick Clegg waded in to state that the country couldn’t morally justify reversing the crappy coalition policy and I thought “what a wanker”. Once upon a time I voted for Clegg because his party was firmly opposed to tuition fees, only for him to do a U-turn once in the coalition government. He destroyed his credibility and that of his party in that move (though there were others too). Clegg could have redeemed himself by supporting Corbyn in his stance on higher education…but no.

​And whilst on the Lib Dems, we have had to put up with excruciating media probing into what Tim Farron thinks about the religious acceptability of gay sex. Seriously, does anybody care? And why is the subject even relevant at all?

And there’s more crap. The Institute of Fiscal Studies has suggested that Labour and the Conservatives parties are in cloud cuckoo land, if not downright lying, when it comes to budgeting.

So in reference to the title of this post, having read around some subjects and given them some thought, I come to the conclusion that the whole shebang is a load of excrement.

A little bit of me is still looking forward to the election though because I have miscalled every political decision this country has made recently and so there might be a surprise after all.

In the meantime though, I won’t risk dipping into the education fund I have been scrimping and saving for my kids.

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Phnuff
5/26/2017 01:10:10 pm

An interesting post matey.

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Adrian Baldwin link
6/9/2017 02:54:37 am

Well JB it turned out all rather interesting in the end. A fascinating result; not exactly great for the UK but brilliant in terms of irony and political comeuppance. Best regards Ade

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