Politics of fear in the 2015 election

Sometimes the old sayings are the best ones, and one which comes to mind is "divide and conquer." The Tories over this campaign have divided and have conquered.  First was through the natural departure of their coalition partners coming up to the election. However, more than this they knew the most marginal and likely wins for the Tories was to target Lib Dem constituencies, it just made so much sense. After all it was the rising tide of Lib Dems snatching Tory constituencies which have them so much power in the first place. The conquering part came naturally and so they reduced the Lib Dem seats from 57 to 8. There is no doubt in my mind the blind-sided psychology of the Lib Dems is what put them in this position in the first place. They should never in a million years have got into bed with the Tories, their influence and power as a real third party came through the election of 2010 and in their own hubris they still thought they were different.  Yet together with the Tories they have ruled the country for 5 years and the electorate do not see the Lib Dems as different at all.  They were voted for in 2010 because their rhetoric was attractive and it had the sparkle of being something worth supporting, but by going into this coalition their uniqueness was lost. Their ideas, their morals which we all thought were common sense.  This move ultimately led to the incessant erosion of trust for the inevitable questions always is, why vote for Lib Dems when you are going to get a Tory government anyway? Talk about lost the plot how on earth can such a penny not drop? My guess is it was the allure of power and the self justification that by being in government they could put the breaks on the Tory administration.  What they failed to understand was, had they been out of government they would of still been able to put the breaks on a Tory administration, they could of kept to their principles and could have decided on bills on a vote by vote basis. Their unique attributes as a party would of shone through and they would of kept many more seats than the fifty they lost in the 2015 election.  Which reminds me of a film called Forest Gump and the line "stupid is as stupid does."

The question of Scotland again is a coup de gras against Labour and a divine example of divide and conquer. However, it added is the value of fear mongering. Historically the UK has always been four separate countries which were pulled together by internal war and strife.  England conquered Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland due to hunger and greed.  This was at a time when the population of the UK had very little say as democracy was less important then who your parents were and being royalty or aristocracy gave entitlements so the UK a fragmented land, pulled together and became a single country.  It seems with Scotland this was more of a default process after the demise of quick battle at Culloden in 1746.  The distaste of the English people has been a bad taste in the mouth of every Scot ever since this time.

Another advantage to the split up of the Scots from England is the belief they cost too much. The memory of revenues from North Sea oil is now in the distant past and that relates to a different era and a different Tory PM. Now we all know oil just is not going to last and it only has half a century left and the value of it has dropped through the basement tax revenues are certainly not so impressive.  It has been said, getting rid of Scotland would save England 7 billion pounds.  Whether this is true or not is of little consequence, for it is the vile attitude and an inbred racism towards them  Cameron stoked like an infectious disease. Tories don't like Scotland, don't like the Scots and anything to do with them because they are socialists and Labourites.  It was through Labour MPs in Scotland Tories had lost parliaments.  They know if you break a Scot in half like a stick of rock, you will see the words "socialist" inscribed through the core.  By losing Scotland effectively the Tories could be in power forever, they could build a nation build on their notion of business one where businesses profit but their social conscience is non existent.

A neighbour to hate is a little like the value of religion as an opiate to the people (Karl Marx), it is a scape goat as a neighbour to blame and hate is almost a natural human condition. Nigel Farage's UKIP party have used this principle to gain notice in the media and their diaspora of voters only gave them a single seat. The Tories used Scotland as a fulcrum to divide the labour party's power and simultaneously vilify the labour party and vilify the Scots.  The message was a vote for Labour would also be a vote for the SNP and condescendingly Cameron emphasised hatred because we all know what the Scots are like they want all of your money and to be free. You can't trust a Scot so you can't trust Milliband.  Cameron has a very juvenile way in talking to the public, why this comes on I am not sure but there is a blame game and their is division in everything he does. This is all a necessity to stay in power. He may think his party has the best policy for recovery but there is a pretty big failing he just doesn't understand.

Businesses make profit because it is the general public which supports them this is who buys their goods and services. If the population of the UK lives in poverty conditions they will not be able to buy those goods and services consequently profits and businesses will go under.   What happens is middle England becomes the goose, to serve middle England becomes everything for these are the people who have spare cash who can buy luxuries and services beyond the bare minimum.  It will take additional years for middle England to realise this and for their wealth to be equally hit. For the middle classes pay taxes and have reasonable incomes. But in a complex financial system which is like the oceans eco systems, when the poorer people of the UK are unable to make ends meet their income distribution in turn will not levitate upwards. Gradually Middle England will also become poor. Perhaps at this point socialism and Labourism will raise it's head and morality will kick in. The effects of another Tory government for another five years are going to be extremely toxic.