Then there were 5

                                                  




Embarrassed by their own vanity the Oxbridge 4 contrived to add add Diane Abbott to the ballot at the very last minute to stop an all Daily Mail line up.

How very gallant. How very PC and New Labour to add yet another Oxbridge graduate to the ballot. Shame they couldn’t find a candidate from a good Secondary Modern School to stand. Now that would have broken the Blairite mould.
                  So now we have the Fabulous Five


                 Who to Vote for ? Who gets my Vote.


        1. David Milliband our one time anonymous Foreign Secretary.
            Bookies favourite and leading the pack at the moment.
           Sorry David you had every chance to say no to war with Iraq
           but like the good Blairite you are you voted for war. A war that
           lost the Party half its active membership and the last Election.

       2. Brother Ed. Secretary of State for Wind Farms & Global Warming.
           Outside chance but not in this Constituency unless he ungoes a
          sea change on the way to the winning post.
          Failed to involve the local Party in celebrating the Wind Farm on
          Romney Marsh and then just prior to the General Election goes
          and puts the kibosh on a new Nuclear Power Station at
          Dungeness. Needs to sort out his priorities on the ground not in
          some research leaning think tank.

        3. Ed Balls. Like the other two straight out of Uni into a research job
            for the Party then into a relatively safe Labour seat following
            Gordon’s rising star. But like Gordon reluctant to take note of
            public opinion and the voters worries before it was too late.
            Really should now be spending more time in his constituency
           given his poor election result.
                           Now if his wife Yvette was on the ballot instead of Ed she
           certainly would give the others a run to the finishing post.

        4. Andy Burnham . Shame he made such a pigs ear of his lines at the
            Hillsborough Memorial service at Anfield. Had be promised then
            full disclosure of the police enquiry and criminal prosecutions he
           would now be out in front by a good few lengths. But like all the
           above when it came to hard choices he played safe.
           Now had he been a Liverpool supporter not a toffee nosed blue
           then he would have my vote by now. Some thing are just tribal.
        5. Diane Abbott. Great company on anyone’s sofa. Superb fall guy
           for Portillo and whats his face the presenter. Just too off the piste
           too often and sadly just another armchair Socialist who says one
           thing and practises another by sending her child to a Private school.
           Certainly deserves to save her deposit and wipe the smile off those
           pundits who think the Millibands have all the answers.
          So for now it’s a write in ……….none of the above.
                             Then Kent in summer is so beautiful one never know
                             who may just drop in to ones Garden Party.

                            They had just better make sure though they come with
                              some Socialist policies for once not just platitudes.
                                                                      Donald 10th June 2010

Business as Usual

Its nearly one month since the General Election that was meant to clean up the Palace of Westminster and restore our faith in Democracy but as yet nothing has changed. Business goes on in the same arcane old way only the floor managers have changed.
The State Opening of Parliament as usual had more costumes and flunkery on display than in the whole of the West End of London and enough Ermine to give the World Wildlife Fund an apoplectic fit. No urgent cutbacks in this expensive charade.
Then the Coalition Government in its hastily cobbled together agreement promised a reduction of 50 in the number of MPs while in the very same breath creating over 50 new Lords from amongst its financial backers and a motley collection of former members of the House of Commons more famous for their 2 jags or fiddled gardening expenses than their achievments for the country.
Finally to see out the month in grand ignominy not just 1 but 2 Chief Secretaries to the Treasury ,fresh from sharpening their axes to cut billions in taxes, were forced to excuse themselves for over claiming on their expenses or evading their liability for CGT on their second homes. Matters they so very conveniently and so hypocritically concealed from the electorate before and after the election in pursuit of a place at the cabinet table.
All this in less than a month from a Coalition Government that promised to clean up Politics once and for all, reform the voting system and the House of Lords , create the Big inclusive Society and give power back to the people.

No wonder Cameron and Clegg want a Parliament fixed for 5years. At the rate they are going 5 weeks let alone 5 months is time enough to show everyone how shallow their promises are and how little is set to change in the Palace of Scandals.

                Guy Fawkes was perhaps not so misguided after all . Just a few centuries before his time?

                                                         The Final Insult




Giving Michael Howard a peerage for services to politics is an insult to the people of this great constituency.

                             27 years he was its MP. 27 years it went downhill.

At a time when Parliament needs cleaning from top to bottom more thoroughly than any hospital ward infested with MRSA his peerage is a disgrace of the 1st order.

So much for reforming the Lords his presence there now demands its abolition.

It was criminal that he over claimed on his gardening expenses , morally indefensible that he claimed his second home allowance on a house in the Constituency he was elected to serve.
Still on the positive side it does now give us all an opportunity to find a new name for his Lordship until the House of Lords is abolished. My favourites so far.
                                    Anne Widdicombe: “ Lord of the Night”

                                  Jeremy Paxman : “ The 13th Lord of the Same.
                    People of Folkestone & Hythe : Lord Warden of the Sink Port
                               From MI5 and the UFO Society:    The Lord Alien
Perhaps someone out there can do us all a favour and start up a Facebook group to find the perfect name for our erstwhile disgraced MP.
                                                                                                                             1st June 2010
                     The Name is out There.