Just under three weeks to go and still the polls have Dave 'n' Ed neck and neck and I still can't quite believe it. Earlier this morning after I saw Sky News I thought about writing a post headed 'The BBC and the Media have won it' but then this week's 'Speccie' hit the front door mat and I read Fraser Nelson's essay describing what looks like the inexorable advance of the loony Left (my categorisation not his). According to him, and despite the fact that he's only 17 1/2 years old he has forgotten more about the Westminster stew-pot than I know, this advance of what I can only call 'soppy socialism' is a world-wide phenomena not just a British one. When he points across the channel at not-so-belle-France creaking and groaning under the idiocy of Presidente Hollande, or the incredible rise to influence of Pablo Iglesias in Spain, or the loopy-loo idiots running Greece - into the ground - you begin to become aware of the ground shifting beneath your feet. And before my American friends snigger, young Master Nelson points at Bill de Clown, sorry Bill de Blasio in 'Noo Yawk', another one to harness the ill-begotten feelings of resentment amongst the plebs who voted him in with 73% of the vote! And remember, the only reason 'Hillbilly' isn't a dead cert for the presidency is because she is perceived as being too Right-wing!
Dave 'n' George, as I have moaned before, are merely middle-management level politicians. They have no real ideology, no imaginative ideas, none of "that vision thang", nothing to stir the emotions of the plebs who are filled with resentment at their lot since the crash of '08. As Nelson points out, the only man with a real idea was Michael Gove who began to show the plebs that there was an alternative to State-controlled education, and what did Dave do, he sacked him and moved him into the background.
I am relying on the 'don't knows' to come through at the very last moment in the privacy of the voting booth in time to save the day. Well, a man my hope, may he not?
Egads Duffers !!!
H i l l B i l l y !!!
Whiters come along he might arrive at a generalization.
Posted by: JK | Friday, 17 April 2015 at 17:46
"Calm down, dear"! And what are you on about?
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 17 April 2015 at 17:51
You'll be glad to hear I think YMD might make it. I think that Sturgeon will provoke the English to zap the Scots!
Posted by: Backofanenvelope | Friday, 17 April 2015 at 18:55
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 16 July 2010 at 09:01
" ... Sorry, 'JK', I have no wish to upset the upright citizens of Arkansas, a state I admire more than anyother despite never having been there! However, please note the capital 'B' in the middle of 'HillBilly'! ... "
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That's what I'm on about!
Posted by: JK | Friday, 17 April 2015 at 19:06
http://boingboing.net/2015/04/14/photos-hillary-rodham-clinton.html
Look at 'er David. Notice anything? Teeth maybe?
Posted by: JK | Friday, 17 April 2015 at 19:11
David. A Labour government with a majority taking into account a few on all sides will snuffit during the next Parliament is desireble. As long as we have defense is all that matters as well as a few of other things.
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 00:06
Good Grief, JK, it's first thing in the morning, I'm hungover and you send me pictures of 'HillBilly' in her youth. Have pity!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 08:05
Be happy David, very happy indeed, I didn't send the pictures 'Uppers' noticing I'd sent you the above - sent me in email title of "Forty Years of Bill and Hillary in Photos."
(Good for me - breakfasttime in Arkansas is four hours in front of.)
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You will though David, in future not be forgetting to capitalize that damned B I'm assured?
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 08:19
Aye, aye, Cap'n!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 09:52
"Soppy Socialism" or Marxism 3.0 with a smiley face as I prefer. Evidently the world has become so over run with danger, so utterly unanchored from the previously dependable alliances and agreements that people everywhere want some one to promise a safe utopia where all will be good and the "good" provided by My Government---insert the appropriate government needed wherever you are---and best of all, the "good" will be paid for by someone else who are always behind the curtain in the room of the "Great Oz". All "My Government" needs is your trust, your loyalty and most of all...your money.
It is almost like the history of the 20th Century never took place.
Posted by: Whitewall | Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 14:08
Jk. The photo on the right seems like she is demonstrating the size of something. Had she met big bonking Bill at this time?
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 19:38
Don't rightly know Jimmy.
Here's what 'Uppers' sent me in the mail.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/photos/hillary-clinton-years-17555279/image-28720684
The scuttlebutt was at the time, that was the size of her dildo.
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 20:27