Vote as you will, but he gets the money.
The third general election debate between the mainstream party leaders has ended and history has been made. For the first time the electorate has had a chance to properly assess the candidates and their policies, politics has been energised and democracy is the winner, we are assured.
David Cameron won the latest debate, according to the polls. Nick Clegg ran in a fairly distant second and the hapless Gordon Brown trailed in last again. None of them fully explained how the deficit will be cut, all of them agreed immigration should be controlled but won’t admit they have no means to control it and all three warned the coming years will be “tough”.
Cameron blasted Brown about his tax on jobs, Brown warned Cameron’s policies were a danger to the alleged recovery and Clegg wondered why everyone couldn’t just get together and work things out.
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What Would Jesus Do?
I hate politicians. I loathe them. The cheating, lying, smarmy, insincere, thieving scum. And those are their least offensive qualities. Did you see them up there again tonight, lying their arses off, treating us like coma victims who have just woken after thirteen years of darkness, pretending we are oblivious to the past?
“Hello Mr Voter, Frank isn’t it? I’m here to help. Pick an issue, Frank. Any issue. Whatever you choose, I agree with you Frank!”
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Fingernails slowly scraping down a chalk board, no mercy given. The audience riveted (literally?) to their seats and wired to them too, expressing their pain in total silence. Eyes as a final resort to transmit the loathing. Ears assailed, belief confounded. Pity them, pity them!
At least we could turn the TV off.
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America! America! God shed his grace on thee, Till selfish gain no longer stain, The banner of the free!
Oops! Sorry, I was having a bit of an American evening centred (sp?) around the three monkeys who insulted our intelligence tonight in a euphemistically branded election “debate.”
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