Vicki Price and the Destruction of the LibDems!

The Liberal Democratic party (nice words!) are currently polling nationally at about 8%!  Today the wife of their former deputy leader faces a jail sentence after pleading not guilty to a charge of perverting the course of justice and being found guilty.  Her estranged husband has already pleaded guilty to the same charge.

This comes only days after the Lord Rennard charges which broke in the final week of the Eastleigh by-election but it goes further...much, much, further.  This party has faced scandal after scandal, Laws, Oaten, Opik (and the cheeky girls), Hancock (the teen fondler), and it goes back to the gay Simon Hughes attacking the gay Peter Tatchell for being gay!!

Their history is frankly abysmal.  The fact that the Tories under Cameron were prepared to form a government with this sleazy crowd speaks volumes for the Political Class. Power is the only game in town.  We had 13 years of an abject Labour party which of course meant that the Tories were almost certainly sure to win. But they didn''t and instead of insisting on a new election the Tories did a fudge.

They brought the sleaziest party ever known in history into government. That meant that the most despicable politician in our history is now our deputy prime minister. Nick Clegg presides over an actual sewer. The recent disclosures about Rennard and the Huhnes makes an honest man shake his head.

The Lib Dems held Eastleigh only because the LibDems were so entrenched and the other parties were so disorganised (UKIP apart) and chose such abysmal candidates that it was only the postal votes which defeated democracy.  Nick Clegg is a sleazy europhile opportunist who has never in his life given a thought for any person described as English.  He has been given the job of  DPM and that sums up the Political Class.

Unsurpassed Political Sleaze!

Oh No! Not just before Eastleigh!

With the Eastleigh By-Election only days away the Lib Dems are embroiled in yet another scandal which of course they deny, just like they deny all the other political scandals involving their members.  Recently a string of female activists have come forward to accuse Lord Rennard of molesting them.  These accusations go back some time.

Once again party leader Nick Clegg originally denied all knowledge but as the nooses tightens he has suddenly remembered that he was actually aware of 'non specific' allegations against this party backer.  If I was a party leader hearing about 'non-specific' allegations and I had a shred of honour I would have tried to make them specific!

Our front line politicians are a pretty dubious bunch but of them all I personally regard Nick Clegg as the most duplicitous.  He campaigned vigorously that student fees should be abolished and then reneged on the deal. I cannot remember one of his policies that would actually benefit the British people. He is a dyed in the wool rabid Europhile which indicates that he actually dislikes his own country.

The Lib Dems are being exposed for what they are... contemptible!
The public have now observed cover ups in almost every aspect of government. Recently we have seen the NHS chief allegedly responsible for thousands of deaths being supported by the PM. We have seen a BBC report heavily redacted. We witnessed Chris Huhne, a leading LibDem, denying for a year that he had coerced his wife to take penalty points for speeding and then suddenly doing an about turn.

They have no shame and no principles. Some of us remember Jeremy Thorpe but most of us remember David Laws who had to resign after giving £40,000 of public money to his gay lover. He is now back in this despicable government. Remember Mark Oaten (rent boys), Mike Hancock (adultery), Charles Kennedy (alcohol), Simon Hughes (secretly gay when elected), Cyril Smith (allegations of child abuse) and even Paddy 'Pantsdown' (adultery).
What a bunch and that is what has appeared in the mainstream media! What don't we know about?

I read that the Eastleigh By-Election is becoming interesting with reports that UKIP could be polling higher than 20% of the vote and mainstream politicians receiving hostile receptions on the door step.  I keep looking for a game changer in our sordid EU controlled politics. I keep hoping that the public will recognise what is happening to the country. I will probably be disappointed yet again but ...one day!

Eastleigh By-Election

The speculation has begun. The bogus polls are trying to influence public opinion but in reality I don't think anyone knows which way the Eastleigh electorate will swing when push comes to shove. They have a dilemma but they also have an opportunity to shake up the mainstream politicians.  We have already had thirteen years of Labour which ruined the economy of the country and as a sideline brought us Mid Staffordshire NHS trust and a few more similar predicaments.They preach dogma, doctrine and targets without accountability and we can have no more of that.

They were followed by yet more nonsense from a Coalition cobbled together to allow a bunch of rich boys a chance to retain the nonsense inherited from Labour.  We should have had another election once the people knew where we stood.

The Coalition cannot agree on anything. We have discovered that about half the Conservative party (including most of the Cabinet) are actually not conservatives. We have spent valuable parliamentary time on same sex marriage which was never announced on anyone's agenda. It has just been a distraction but it has uncovered the duplicity of the politicians. Now they want to increase taxation yet again and yet they seem unable to spend our money wisely so where does that leave the electorate? 

Well Eastleigh has also got the Huhne factor. They all voted for a man who in hindsight was despicable. He used his family to get elected and then dumped them. His political life was dodgy as he was a driving force behind the discredited global warming campaign. He fought a dirty battle against 'Calamity' Clegg for the LIbDem leadership and clung onto to his parliamentary salary and expenses for a year before caving in and pleading guilty in his recent court case.

Despite all of this the polls are still predicting a straight fight between the Tories and the LibDems. I should know better by now but I do wonder just what will it take before the public wake up? I just do not understand, now that all our mainstream politicians have had an opportunity to run the country, why people keep voting Con/Lab/Lib?

I know that I am repeating myself endlessly but surely there are enough people in Eastleigh who are as sick of this nonsensical sideshow in Westmonster as I am? Surely it would be worth just once to shake them all up and let us here a different voice in parliament. The Eastleigh electorate seem quite evenly split. I just hope that they are sufficienty brassed off to give UKIP a chance but then we get what we deserve! Did these people really deserve Chris Huhne though?

Eastleigh - A Blogger's Dream and a Political Nightmare!

What a farce! The Coalition, that is in ideology light years apart, have been handed the nightmare scenario following the confession of Chris Huhne that he had lied to everyone for at least a year. The discredited Huhne has not just destroyed his own career but  potentially could embarrass both the Coalition parties.

They must now square up to each other in what is actually a marginal constituency. Recent results have indicated that, after his student fee about turn and his total disrespect for public opinion Nick Clegg is about as popular as the plague! He has become the champion of lost deposits and clearly has slipped behind UKIP as the third party in the country.

David Cameron is haemorrhaging support from his grass roots activists following his stance on gay marriage. Both on this issue and the EU his party is hopelessly split and the public know it. These two leaders have tried to cobble together a coalition that fools nobody and as such they have lost all credibility.

The Gay Marriage issue was never in the Tory election manifesto, it was never in the Coalition agreement nor in the Queen's speech so one can only conclude that it has been raised to disguise an inept performance by most of the Cabinet. 

All the big hitters in today's Gay Marriage debate in the Tory party were on the backbench. There are some very able MPs who do not agree with their leader.

Eastleigh is probably about as far away from Labour heartlands as could be possible. In the deep south Ed Miliband is an irrelevance so he must be observing from a distance with a malevolent grin on his face. So...where does that leave us?

After being let down so badly will the electorate turn out? There is little doubt that in many areas apathy rules because our politicians are generally useless and Brussels rules so why should they bother?

The unknown factor is UKIP.  Apparently they are now polling 14% of the vote.  Personally I mistrust these opinion polls but there is little doubt that this could be a major chance of a breakthrough. If the public are angry enough to turn out and demonstrate how disaffected so many of us are with the three main parties this could become a sensation. 

For whatever reason Nigel Farage has turned down the opportunity to fight this by election so just maybe he is not as optimistic that I am. Even so this is going to be fun! 

Just one final thought. As Chris Huhne, since being charged and pleading 'Not Guilty', has benefited from a year's parliamentary salary and expenses should he now not be asked to pay it all back? He knew all along (as most of us did) that he was guilty so surely the parliamentary authorities should not let this blatant abuse of the public purse go unchallenged? Just a thought!





  

Chris Huhne Pleads Guilty ... At Last!

Today the inevitable happened and after 9 years of perverting the course of justice Chris Huhne was forced to admit that his wife had taken penalty points for speeding on his behalf. This is after months of denial and lying to almost anybody who would listen.

I emphasise this because if justice is done and the fact that, he is a member of the Privy Council does not colour the decision of the judge, then his elaborate act and multiple public denials should be taken into account.

It strips him bare of all decency and it concerns me how such an absolute toad ever managed to get into parliament. Well no, it probably doesn't surprise me but it does emphasise the type of person we have at the top of our political system.

The By-Election in Eastleigh should be great fun because Labour is probably non existent in Hampshire! Could this be a chance for UKIP?

The Trial of Chris Huhne

The trial involving Chris Huhne and his former wife Vicky Pryce both accused of perverting the course of justice is likely to set records for being the longest legal process ever. It took Essex police eight months to investigate the charge before the case even came to court and now it had been postponed until January 2013! It begins again tomorrow.


The press keep quoting 'legal reasons' for such a lengthy delay but nobody seems to know what these reasons could possibly be? Forgive me for suggesting that someone is hoping we may all forget about this and then it can be quietly forgotten.

However, 'perverting the course of justice' is a pretty serious crime and carries with it a maximum punishment of 'life imprisonment'. Given that I read an article which stated that his wife could not have possibly been driving the car at the time of the offence I cannot understand what defence the lawyers can be concocting up that would take over a year!  

There are suggestions that Mr Huhne is a pretty slippery character. If he gets away with this then those suggestions could be confirmed. He may yet pay a high price for his infidelity!