Posted on 02/02/2015 4:44:48 AM PST by Nextrush
"Our debts, national and personal, are huge. We can never pay them off. Our trade imbalance is just as bad. Our recovery is based entirely on a house-price balloon that could burst in a moment.
The main effort of the Government is to avoid any shocks until the Election is over-but what then?"
Peter Hitchens "Mail on Sunday" column Sunday 2/01/15
The story of politics everywhere in the world from Obama's America to Cameron's Britain is all about faking people out about the true nature of the economic situation.
The "Conservative" Prime Minister sits on a debt mountain worse than that of the United States with spending cuts to everything from local government to police to the military in force for this year.
Sacred cows that don't get cut are foreign aid and the National Health Service, although a new policy of allowing emergency dispatchers to delay by two minutes decisions to send paramedics to emergency calls is coming into force.
Latest polling shows an almost dead heat with Labour leading at around 31 percent, the Conservatives at 30 percent, with UKIP at 17 percent. The General Election is now some three months away (May 7th)
In this scenario, no party will have the 326 seats needed for a majority in the House of Commons. Polling in Scotland indicates a strong showing there for the Scottish National Party. The SNP is poised right now to gain a majority of Scotland's 71 seats in the House.
An estimate of seats that would be won if the election is held now published by "The Guardian" last week shows Labour and the Tories at 273 seats. SNP is estimated at 49 and UKIP at only 5 seats. But its admitted that 50 seats are marginal and they are where UKIP has a chance for sure.
What would be needed to move UKIP into gaining dozens of seats is a popular vote above 20 percent. UKIP could have that support right now with voters reluctant to tell pollsters their true intentions.
Writing in "The Independent" newspaper last week Nigel Farage said that the two major parties (Labour and Conservative) are pouring hundreds of thousands of pounds into Twitter and Facebook to smear UKIP. Farage also wrote that this could be the dirtiest election campaign in UK history.
UKIP has proven to be a thorn in both major parties sides as it took 2/3 of the Conservative vote and 40 percent of the Labour vote in special elections held late last year.
In the South Thanet constituency where Conservatives have traditionally won elections and where Farage is standing as a candidate, it looks like the Tory attack machine has come up with a special dirty trick.
Comedian Al Murray is running against Farage there. Murray likes to make Nigel Farage the butt of his jokes with his alter ego "the Pub Landlord". The party label Murray is running on is the "Free United Kingdom Party" which comes out at the acronym 'FUKP'.
One of Murray's promises is to make pints of beer 1 pence.
Nigel Farage is known for drinking beer pints and he just finished a month of abstinence from pints that he called "dry January".
Perhaps the real reason is that UKIP leader Nigel Farage cleaned the clock of the Liberal Democrat leader Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in two televised debates last year.
That’s why I personally believe the global game of Three Card Monte will go on indefinitely.
All other countries are in the same boat as we are.
So who’s gonna call B.S.?
Wow. I didn’t know anybody could be in as bad a shape as us when it came to gub’mint debt.
But at least the Brits make some cuts, even if they are in the wrong places.
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