votes. Last night saw the one and only TV debate with Cameron, our now ex Prime Minster selling himself. Now some may question when I use the term "ex" well in fact Parliament has now dissolved. All those men and women (not representative) who sat in chambers and incessantly argued with each other officially have no power until the election is heard. However, and it is a big however, they still get full pay for the two months until the election has been re held. I can't think of many jobs where the ex employee continues to get full pay when they are not doing any work. In addition to this every part of the civil service, local and central are restricted in making statements which could be construed as political or sway the voting public this period is known as Purdah.

Regardless of the process in the run up to this next election, which is going to be a historic collection; it is during it and under pressure we see how the ex most powerful man in the UK reacts. We get to see his personality. When under pressure applied in the form of cameras, audience and a looming election the stress of the situation may well show Cameron's cracks. Patterns of Cameron's previous traits in his patronising attitude towards women, biting his lip, physical and facial tells of him holding in anger like a corked Vesuvius arise. These are flaws in a individual who should not be allowed legally to have as much power as he had over the last five years. He is like a child, if he didn't get his own way he would throw the rattle out of his pram. However, something else which strikes is perhaps that Cameron is not the smartest man in the world for there seems to be an inability to put together the pieces. Similarly Ian Duncan-Smith acts the same way when someone disagrees with him, when he is unable to tackle alternative view points or calmly rationally discuss them. The individual who keeps their head is the person we most look up to in any stressful situation. I don't view PM Questions as a particularly defining time because each leader has their gang behind them. A gang to heckle and grumble or cheer like good sycophants they are. Though saying this there have been odd occasions when Milliband did get under his collar, but not enough.
I've had angst over the devastating decision a love lorn Nick Clegg made to eat from the same table as the Tories. When the two were put in office it was like two newly weds in the halo of happiness.
It's true they were both happy to be there, but Nick sold his country and sold his party out when he jumped in bed with the Tories. There were promises made in the Liberal Democrat's manifesto, pledges which amount to falsehoods. If a party doesn't stick to its manifesto which they are elected on then how can they be trusted? The people of Sheffield Hallam will make their view heard soon, if only the same students are about who accepted what Nick said on the last polling day, they will have a few memories and feel they have been betrayed. Clegg should never be allowed in the political arena again. Sheffield make your vote be heard kick him in the bollocks.
Again when looking at Tory character failures, Osborne is yet another one who grinds incessantly on
the ordinary working class psyche. For there is not a time I have seen him on TV when I think here is a rich smug bastard who likes to boast and show off. Here is someone who doesn't know what it is like to live in a world of poverty or who has ever experienced any aspect of it. There is also something of a rich kid nasty effeminate look about him. You may have met or known the kind the bitchy man who comes across as bitchier than a woman could ever be.
In an interview which should of been with Osborne we saw Jeremy Paxman give a grilling to an unfortunate Chloe Smith. After which
it was clear she would no longer have a political career. She was very young, naive and ultimately took the fall for Osborne's U turn on fuel duty. Yet it shows Osborne to be a weak coward for he should of been sat with Paxman not Smith. Smith went on to get married and have a family, now well and truly forgotten except for her bumbling interview which has become the ultra political fail all can see on Youtube. She was like a little lamb who was put in a wolf's cage. Osborne would of cacked his breeks (as the Scots say) if her were there.

It has been a constant drag since the Tories and Liberal Democrats got into office and the actual date of dissolution. They managed to sell of one of the state's greatest remaining assets the Post Office. Typical of the nature of Tories when considering British Gas and British Telecom. As well as sell off the most successful profit making state ran business to date. The East Coast Mainline railway service, which is now going to be ran by Richard Branson. Who as the West Coast travelling public will know likes to cram them in with restricted space and higher profits, not to mention hard uncomfortable seats and poor condition toilets. Standing back as an observer the gradual decimation of the UK can be viewed. For it is the errors which are made that stand out most especially when at the time they are being made there is an outcry and good reason such initiatives should not happen. Just as Tony Blair (Tory in red) brought in the Public Finance Initiative like a stone around the neck of a drowning victim. The PFI contracts for public organizations has meant they are continually overcharged by private contractors who they are tied to and can not break away from. Heard the story of the £10 toilet roll sold to a public nursing home? All because of a PFI contract.

The first past the post electoral system is unfair. We all know this, voting is not compulsory so those who do get voted in are a result of those who bother to turn up at the voting box and nothing else. There is a larger proportion of the population who do not vote than those who do, to an extent because of this politics in the UK fails. Each party now panders to the grey vote for they know this portion of voters do hit the voting boxes. They don't care much for advertising to the youth because the youth just can't be bothered. Politics is boring and politics is not on the national curriculum yet another one of those very useful life things which should be compulsory. If it were, then we might find the very irritating and unelectable didn't get elected as they did last time round.
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