So what happens next?

The county elections have enabled voters to voice their dissatisfaction at how the coalition government has been handling the economy and many want a much stricter immigration policy, there are a lot of Tory voters who want out of Europe and all these factors have persuaded a lot of people to vote UKIP. Labour has also lost some voters mainly to do with immigration fears.


Now is the time all the non UKIP parties have to nail their colours to the mast especially Labour and Tory. Labour has got to now be the Pro-Europe party with no referendum, pledging to stay in Europe with a better deal and having policies on the economy and Immigration that voters can believe in.

As for the Conservatives they are going to have to either throw their lot in with UKIP and get rid of Cameron or see a real split in the party not unlike the Labour/SDP situation twenty years ago.

The only way I can see a solution for Cameron is to have a referendum on Europe BEFORE the next general election. The reason he isn’t doing this is because basically he and many of his senior politicians are pro-Europe, they are stuck between a rock and a hard place but will eventually have to accept a split within their party. In the last couple of days two Tory ministers have already stated their anti-euro case. Another big factor is which way Boris Johnson will swing.

The LibDems are going to get a hammering in 2015 regardless of what Nick Clegg does in the meantime. He’ll almost certainly come out strongly Pro-Europe talking up investment and growth and talking down austerity. Maybe hoping for another coalition with Labour!

The most interesting thing about UKIP is their charismatic leader Nigel Farage who will keep ramping up the pressure on Cameron and will be looking for a constituency possibly Thanet to stand in 2015, the one thing that could change everything of course is the collapse of the EURO which according to some is a forgone conclusion.

Cliftonville East by-election

There is a by-election tomorrow Thursday May 9th. for the Cliftonville East ward due to the imprisonment of former tory councillor and TDC leader Sandy Ezekiel.

The candidates are:

Labour's Alan Currie, Conservative Wendy Chaplin, Rozanne Duncan (Ukip), independent Louise Oldfield and Liberal Democrat Seth Proctor.

Vote Labour tomorrow.

A storm in a UKIP

Christ almighty, UKIP gain a few council seats and the worlds gone crazy, Cameron and the rest of his Eton buddies are running around like headless pheasants, Milliband and his team are desperately trying to tweak their immigration policy without offending anyone the same colour as Katie Price and Nick Clegg has disappeared up his own arsehole.

Nigel  Farage meanwhile is lapping up every minute of his big moment but will now have to tell all his new councillors not to give any interviews or express their views on anything other than wind farms for fear of bursting the UKIP bubble.

I actually quite like the UKIP leader, I've agreed with him on a few things concerning our relationship with Europe and on his 'common sense' tour it was hard not to warm to him when he spoke of unelected eurocrats and the fact that the immigration open door policy has allowed half a million foreigners to enter our country every year since 2005 driving down wages, increasing youth employment and putting enormous strain on our public services.

But when all is said and done UKIP is not the answer is it? We need a new way forward in this country where hard work is rewarded but excessive wages and bonuses for the likes of bankers are restricted. We need a fair welfare state that looks after the people that really need and deserve it.

We need to create more growth and real jobs that pay more than a minimum wage of £6 per hour. We need to get our young people back into work.

A fair immigration policy that allows people to come to our country who have work skills that are needed.

We need to re-nationalise the water industry and seriously consider bringing the railways back into public ownership. The energy companies should be regulated properly where they are restricted in the profits they can make and household bills are kept to manageable levels.

I could go on but I think you get what I'm saying, we may all disagree on a few of the finer points and personally I'm not 100% sure whether we would be better off out of Europe or staying in with a much better deal, but most people I meet and talk to just want a fair society and let's face it, our country is still not a bad place to live is it?

Kent County Council Election

Tomorrow May 2nd is the KCC election, my area is Margate and Cliftonville.

The candidates are as follows:

Matt Brown Liberal Democrat

Louise Drelaud Labour Party Candidate

Mo Elenor UKIP

Tony Flaig Liberal Democrat

Ian James Gregory The Conservative Party Candidate

William Scobie Labour Party Candidate

Clinton Sear UKIP

Edward Targett The Green Party

Chris Wells The Conservative Party Candidate

As far as contact or correspondence with the candidates, I received an election address leaflet from the Labour party and one from The Conservatives. I have also had a newsletter from Labour and a visit to my road and house from the Labour Party candidates.

I have received no leaflets or any type of correspondence from any of the other candidates, UKIP, Lib-Dem or the Green Party.

For me this one is an easy decision to make, I'll be voting Labour tomorrow.

Climate Change,..Please!

                                                                 It's all your fault

As we froze through the coldest March in 50 years and the second coldest since records began I noticed a few last ditch efforts from the man made C02 ‘global warming’ fraternity to sucker us in one last time, I read how the increased Antarctic ice levels were due to ‘melting’ and how ‘climate change’ as it is now called, can cause all kinds of different weather such as snow, freezing temperatures, floods and heavy rainfall, funny no mention of warmth which is the one bloody thing we all are crying out for at the moment!

But just when we need heat and light for our homes and workplaces more than ever, we are rapidly heading for the most serious energy crisis this country has ever faced.

Due to the failed science of ‘global warming’ which blamed man made C02 emissions, successive UK government energy ministers have decided to close down most of our coal industry in favour of a ‘dash for gas’, because it gives off only half as much carbon dioxide as coal – this began at a time when we still had enough cheap gas from the North Sea not to worry about becoming dependent on costly gas imports.

Of course now we are reliant on other countries such as Russia to sell us their expensive gas and nothing better illustrates the insanity of the shambles our politicians have led us into than the fact that, just when we are closing down our coal-fired power stations in the hope of saving the planet, the Chinese are building 360 more of them, the Indians a further 450 and even the Germans another 20 – adding far more CO² to the world’s atmosphere every week than Britain puts out in a year.

Maybe this is because they have looked at the figures and accepted there has been no ‘global warming’ for nearly twenty years even though C02 levels have been soaring during that entire time! Maybe they have concluded that our Earth climate is regulated by solar influences and not from the miniscule 0.11% of C02 contribution of total greenhouse gases.

Records show that 6000 more people in the UK have died this winter than last which was milder by comparison, however due to further increases in energy bills, colder winters and higher usage we will all have to find an extra £300 per year by 2018 to heat our homes. It looks like things will get a lot worse before there is any change in the crazy green energy policies this country has signed us all up to.

They're all in it together

A commons vote on the controversial workfare bill passed through parliament a few days ago with hardly a mention in the media.
The government was trying to reverse a court of appeal ruling that two unemployed people had been unlawfully made to work unpaid by their job centre because the DWP had failed to give enough legal information to the jobseekers involved. This was also known as the ‘Poundland’ case.

The decision by the court had meant the two jobseekers along with 250.000 others were in line for £130m in rebates.

This was the type of situation that would have seen the Labour party of old screaming from the rafters and queuing up in the commons to vote against the ‘nasty tories’. As it turned out, following a briefing from Ed Milliband members of the shadow cabinet were told to abstain from the vote and Labour MP’s were told by their whips to do the same.

The shadow work and pensions minister Liam Byrne was the prime mover here and certainly would not have been out of place sitting across the floor in the House of Commons. Forty four Labour MP’s decided to ignore the party whip and vote against the bill but it was carried without any delay.

I think this vote shows how diferent the Labour party is now from its old left wing socialist times. The days of Red Ken, Derek Hatton and all powerful Union leaders are long gone, most of the Labour MP’s these days rubbed shoulders at school and university with many of their Tory and LibDem counterparts.

I think the phrase ‘They’re all in it together’ would be appropriate on this occasion.

We're all in it together

A triple dip recession looms and 6.5 people in the UK are in fuel poverty, that's 27% of households unable to heat their homes to the level needed for comfort and well being.

For the workers, retirement age is being pushed up, pensions are being devalued and savings in the bank earn you 1% interest if you're lucky. Growth has stalled and government borrowing is going up not down.

So what was Chancellor George (or to call him by his real name) Gideon Osborne doing this week to help us all out?

He was in Brussels arguing against European finance ministers discussing plans to clamp down on bankers pay. You see, they want to cap a bankers bonus to only 100% of their salary, 200% if shareholders agree! But this isn't enough for George and his banker buddies, some of them have even threatened to leave the UK  if these plans are implemented.

However, after having seen our two state owned banks RBS lose £6 Billion pounds over the last year and Lloyds £570m, I'm sure we could find a few talented unemployed young people to do a better job.

Osborne was out voted in Brussels by 26 votes to 1.