Well, they had it; ‘the debate’. All seven (???) political leaders saying how wonderful it would be if their party won the upcoming election.

So the first question is: why was Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish Nationalists, present and in fact according to most commentators, the winner of the debate, why the fuck was she there? Because she’s part of ‘Britain’. Even though given a choice (which she was), she would not be part of Britain. But she lost that vote, is still desperate for Scottish Independence (though not as desperate as I am for it) and now fancies her chances of aligning her deep-fried, batter-coated party with Miliband so she can detach her nation from Westminster. The ‘Westminster’ she loathes and despises. So a welcome addition to parliament she would be.

Similarly, why was that Welsh bird there? Can’t remember her name. (In fact I didn’t watch the debate, too busy at tai chi). She spoke only about Wales. Which is very nice. But useless for the un-Welsh. And if this debate was so ‘inclusive’ where were the Ulster Unionists? They weren’t absent just because we hate them. If that was the case then the Scots and Welsh wouldn’t have been invited either. Nor Ed Miliband on that criterion.

I’m not sure, but I’ll be fairly surprised if we have a Plaid Cymru candidate on my voting list here in North London. So why were they even invited to the party? And more importantly, this is NOT a presidential election. We are not voting for ‘Miliband’ or ‘Cameron’ but voting for a faceless party representative who does have a second home, paid for on expenses, near to where I live.
So I’m not really convinced of the validity of this debate in the first place. Other than to outline party policy and intention should any of them win a majority, which is very very unlikely.

I do take issue with Ed Miliband though. His horrible insistence that he represents ‘workers’ and will make their lives better, make Britain better. Well I’m a worker. He seems to think that unless you wear overalls and come home every night with a dirty face, you’re not a ‘worker’. It may also surprise Mr Miliband that even bankers work a bit. Ok, they do have 7 hour breaks for lunch and champagne, get chauffeured around from meetings to dinner at the Ritz and spend the rest of the time counting their bonuses received for investments in child labour in the third world, but they do work.

I find Miliband terribly, horribly, creepily, nastily patronising. He likes to ‘dumb things down’. To make things simple so that even we can understand him. Mansion tax will save the NHS. Bollox. Zero hours contracts are evil and must be stopped. Even though Unite, Labour’s biggest sponsor, uses hundreds of them. Hypocrite. And now, Labour will help ‘you’, the people, ‘the workers’ at the expense of bonus-laden, Ferrari-driving bankers. Simplistic garbage. If he wins I shall have to consider assassination. A Guy Fawkes moment.

Happy Friday

A xxxx