UKIP

What to say about the former 'mainstream' parties? Where to start? Calling them names seems to have worked a treat, as did trying to smear UKIP candidates. It merely showed that a win over UKIP on policies was not considered likely.

I think the most obvious problem was highlighted on QT last night. Whilst the politicians on the panel were very careful indeed to sound moderate in their views of UKIP and the predicted swing of votes to them in local elections, they were still missing the point.

All of these politicians spoke of a protest vote and that they must listen to the people more and their concerns. The old 'reconnect' cant. Essentially people inside the bubble think that voters are pretty thick. But I feel that if the general public use local elections, where the voting is less important, to warn national politicians, that it shows the general public to be quite bright.

Anyway, the real problem is, that the panel didn't mean they wanted to address people's concerns, they meant they needed to find a way to gather their votes. There was and is no interest in doing the right thing, just getting into power.

No longer a single policy party, UKIP have latched onto the things that actually matter in this country; immigration, crime, the EU and the climate change scam. Labour and the Conservatives are either supporters of all the preceding list or don't care either way. As ever the Lib Dems are just the slightly batty relation sitting in the corner muttering incredible things.

Actually, the reason the Lib Dems have done so badly is not just they let their supporters down, but that their ideas of what constitutes a policy, long ridiculed have now been thrust into the spotlight as they share power. Something they never envisaged as they thought up strange things to say.

What the politicians need to realise is that it is they, not us who have disengaged from politics. When you let the technocrats of the EU run the country and you just talk amongst yourselves within a bubble,   it should come as no surprise that you lose all credibility.

Refusing to talk about the EU does not make you a world class statesman. Saying that you are a true believer in an obvious scam, to form the 'greenest government ever', just makes you stupid.

UKIP shouldn't ever have presented a threat to anyone. That it does shows how totally useless our 'main' politicians are, how corrupt the party system and how careless politics has become. The 'stupid' man in the street realises what has happened, but will the 'clever' politicians catch up any time soon?

Police Commissioners

The low turnout for the election of police commissioners is mainly because it was not publicised by the government. People didn't really know what they were for, so didn't know whether they agreed or not and they certainly didn't who the candidates were.

Despite the nonsense on the BBC (how strange!) that the Corby by election was a massive slap to the Tories - because it returned to Labour, it is clear that there is a trend towards the Conservatives on law and order. I'm not sure about the client state Labour voters. Clearly they want Labour as a government because they can be trusted to keep paying benefits and hiring public sector staff, despite the damage it does to the country.

But what about law and order? Obviously Labour have a poor track record on crime, because they are generally useless politicians who are only interested in feathering their own nests. But Labour voters don't care about that and quite a few of them (particularly politicians!) would want a weak and politically controlled police force.

But anyway, I suppose most people didn't bother so we don't learn much. A bit like when under 25% of the voting population voted for Tony Blair, giving him a landslide! Democracy in this country is undoubtedly being corrupted as much as any rotten borough or votes only for the rich ever did. Today we have a party, Labour, who have created a client state and a corruption of boundaries and political standards, all to ensure that they can rule unendingly.

And please, Labour voters with an iota of a brain; not only has every Labour government left the country in a mess, but the last spell, surely, was way beyond the Pale. We cannot allow such venal half-wits to hold power ever again surely?  At least the other 'sociliast' party supporters, the Lib Dems, have had the good sense to desert them for not doing any of what they said. They just need to stop believing in Utopia too.

As an aside on the police commissioners story, I am absolutely delighted that the people around Hull had the good sense to dump the oaf Prescott. This waste of molecular biology would not have been a great joke, a piece of rabid irony as a police commissioner. He would have been an insult, again, to any decent person. I'm sure the local Chief Constable would have been happy that he would get no interference from the commissioner (as long as he toed the line as far as Prescott's personal world is concerned - no speeding tickets etc), but for Prescott the main attraction was undoubtedly the money.

He should have stayed out of our misery, accept that he is continuing to get vast sums from us that he has never deserved and that he should have been charged over the assault committed in full public view, for which a suitably compliant, politically Left leaning and controlled police force could find no evidence!